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CIRCLE NO. 120 ON FREE INFORMATION CARD. Letters Safety First in the Magazine, Please Always Protect Your Eyes This is the first time in my almost 63 years that I have felt obliged to write to a publication that I subscribe to. The reason for my writing is safety. Simple safety. I just got my first issue of Popular Woodworking and I think it's great, but I have a problem. In two of the articles, "Classic Wardrobe" by Troy Sexton and "Joints for Boxmaking" (April 2003) by David Thiel and Kara Gebhart, Troy and Kara were both working without safety glasses. Troy seems more intent on protecting his hearing than his eyes. He has glasses on when using a brad nailer but not when using a router. Kara is using a hammer and a drill with no safety glasses. This might seem like nitpicking but it sets a bad example for readers. You can't do woodworking by sound alone; you need to be able to see. I have a 6-year-old nephew who loves to come down into my basement shop and "make things." He knows that when he hits the bottom of the stairs it's "can I have my glasses Uncle Bruce?" Other adult friends who come to my shop also know that. I keep a cabinet with eight or nine pairs of safety glasses for visitors, both for their safety and mine. Bruce Lyle via the Internet An Idea for Cutting Dados for CD Storage Easily I enjoyed the article "Simple CD Storage" (February 2003). I am a teacher at Barrington High school in Barrington, Ill., and my students have been making CD and DVD racks for years. As such, we use a jig attached to the miter gauge that has a spacer finger so that each dado is cut an equal distance from the next. It's much like the spacer finger you find on shop-made jigs for cutting box joints on your table saw. One spacer is for CDs at 7/l6"; the other for DVDs is 5/s". Also, I use a simple method to determine the length of the board for CDs: For every CD you want, it and its spacer equals an inch. This works out well for the students. Jeff Blessman Barrington, Illinois Getting Square Edges With the 'Side-clamp Honing Guide' can be Tough I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the article "Sharpening Plane Irons and Chisels" (April 2003). I have been reading on the same subject for years, and yours has clarified the subject far more clearly than all the previous - collectively. I particularly enjoyed the conversions you gave for using sandpaper as opposed to traditional sharpening stones. I do use a "side-clamping honing guide" and find it very convenient - with one big drawback. Specifically, keeping the chisel/plane square. Do you have any thoughts on this? And once honed out of square how does one square it? Marshall A. Wentz Williamsport, Pennsylvania I've never had a problem with squareness with the side-clamp honing jig in the seven years I've been using it. Forgive me if this sounds elementary, but there are two clamping faces on the jig. One is straight and one is curved. To ensure my WRITE TO US Popular Woodworking welcomes letters from readers with questions or comments about the magazine or woodworking in general.We try to respond to all correspondence. Published letters may be edited for length or style.All letters become the property of Popular Woodworking. How to send your letter: • E-mail: popwood@fwpubs.com • Fax:513-891-7196 • Mail carrier: Letters • Popular Woodworking 4700 E. Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236 10 Popular Woodworking June 2003 |
