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SUPPLIES

Frame Mortise and Tenon Jig Leigh Industries Ltd. P.O. Box 357 104-1585 Broadway St. Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada V3C 4K6 800-663-8932 leighjigs.com

Lie-Nielsen Small Bronze Spokeshave Lie-Nielsen Toolworks P.O. Box 9

Warren, ME 04864-0009

800-327-2520

lie-nielsen.com

A spokeshave cleans up your saw cuts on the top rails quickly.After working with the fancy Leigh jig, it's a relief to pick up a tool that's simpler than I am.

cut the tapers using my band saw and cleaned up the cuts with a smoothing plane. Keep the off-cuts because they are useful when gluing the case together at the end of the project.

Now sand or plane down all your parts and glue up the side assemblies. In order to attach the top, screw the cleats to the top edge of your side assemblies and bore a couple holes through the cleats. Break all the edges of your parts with 120-grit sandpaper.

Now comes an important decision. You can go ahead and assemble the case and then finish it. Or you can tape off the joints, finish the individual parts and then assemble the case. I took the latter course.

I kept the finish simple on this piece. I wiped on Minwax's "red mahogany 225" stain on all the parts. This stain is available at most home-center stores; 8 ounces will cost you less than $3. Allow the stain to dry overnight.

The next day, apply a few coats of your film finish of choice. I sprayed M.L. Campbell's Magnalac precatalyzed lacquer (satin sheen) using a HVLP spray system. Sand

between the second and third coats with 320-grit stearated sandpaper. Remove the tape from the tenons and then glue up the individual parts of the cabinet. Use the falloff pieces from cutting the leg tapers to clamp the lower part of the case squarely.

If you haven't figured it out yet, magazine cabinets aren't much good for storing modern magazines (unless you stacked them flat). But they do make handy bookshelves - especially for antique volumes.

Once I set the cabinet in place next to my fireplace and loaded it up with books, I took a second look at the picture of the original in the 1910 Gustav Stickley catalog. Someone in his art department should have been fired for butchering that photo. This

is a nice piece.

PW

Most people don't notice the tapers on the legs. (My wife didn't, and she has a sharp enough eye to always find my car keys.) The tapers are critical, however. You definitely would notice their absence.

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