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Planing a Cylinder On a Lathe Because of its straight sides, turning a cylinder on the lathe can be more challenging than turning a complicated shape. A block plane can come in handy for the final smoothing and straightening of the cylinder. After rough-turning the blank with a roughing gouge, I use a finish gouge to turn the cylinder to within Vl6" of its final diameter. Then I set a block plane for a fine cut and hold it diagonally against the spinning workpiece as I plane along its length to smooth it. Play with the angle of the plane as you work. The more parallel the plane is to the work, the straighter the results will be, but the more difficult the cut is. A more perpendicular approach will yield an easier cut, but it's one that might not be as straight. Charles Brightson Worchester, Massachusetts Spray Your Screws For Easier Driving I recently did a stint assembling Adirondack chairs with galvanized screws. To make the screws insert more easily, I dumped them into a coffee can and sprayed them with aerosol furniture polish, shaking the can while spraying to coat the screws thoroughly. Once the polish dried on the screws, they drove in smoothly and quickly with less effort. No problems with screw heads snapping off, and my drill batteries last much longer. PW Steven Zawalick San Luis Obispo, California MORTISE & TENON JIG Worldwide Patent Pending PCT/GB02/00253 trend routing technology Enables mortise & tenons and dowel joints to be cut with a plunge router. Ideal for cabinet, chair and table construction. One set-up for both mortise and tenon giving perfectly fitting joints. Cuts mortise & tenon sizes of 14" to 5,8" Fully adjustable for compound angle joints up to 45°. Reversible templates to produce round and square end tenons. Templates can be used for accurate dowelling applications. Template guide bushes are included but router bits are required. MT/JIG FROM $299.00 Visit us at booth 6764 Tel: (859) 485 2080 Fax: (859) 485-2286 CIRCLE NO. 125 ON FREE INFORMATION CARD. You're Probably Just As Ambitious. Whether you are a do-it-yourselfer, a professional woodworker or somewhere in between, you have a world full of projects in the home or in the shop that will be easier and more enjoyable to complete when you use quality clamps, bench vises and miter boxes/saws from the Adjustable Clamp Company. Look for them under the Jorgensen, Adjustable and Pony brand names wherever fine tools are sold. Adjustable "Jorger\ser\" "R>r\y" Made in the USA by the Adjustable Clamp Co., 425 North Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL 60622, CIRCLE NO. 139 ON FREE INFORMATION CARD. popwood.com 23 |
