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issue 35 September 1997

publisher Donald B. Peschke

editor Tim Robertson

associate editor Phil Totten

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EDITOR'S NOTE

Cutoffs

If I had to put together a wish list for

my shop, I could tell you my first choice in a heartbeat — more space.

Now there's no harm in wishing. But the reality is my shop is shoehorned into the basement — right between the laundry room and storeroom.

So unless I carve out some new territory (which is about as likely as winning the lottery), I'm going to have to get by with the space that's available.

In the meantime, I'm always on the lookout for ways to solve the problem of having a limited amount of space.

tool station. The revolving tool station featured on page 16 is one solution. It only takes up nine square feet of space. Yet it combines a workstation for your benchtop tools as well as storage for portable power tools.

Benchtop tools are mounted in a cluster on a circular platform that spins around like a carousel. This means you can position the tool you're working at directly in front of you while the others are out of the way. When you need to use a different tool, just give the platform a spin.

The revolving platform is supported by a base cabinet that provides storage for portable power tools. To make it easy to remove a tool (or put one back), they're stored on a large turntable that rotates like a lazy susan.

time. But space isn't always the problem. Sometimes there's not enough time to start big projects that have been on the back burner — like building raised panel doors for all your kitchen cabinets (the type a cabinet shop would build for a kitchen remodeling project).

Granted, this may seem like a time consuming task. But it doesn't have to be. You just have to borrow a few tricks from the big production shops. (For more on this, refer to page 12.)

stile & rail bits. For example, you can cut the joinery for the frame and the profile along the inside edge at the same time. While commercial shops use a shaper for this, the same thing can be accomplished with a router and a set of stile and rail bits, see page 24.

frame & panel jig. As long as you're in "production mode," you'll want to glue up the doors quickly too. So don't overlook the frame and panel jig shown on page 28. Besides being a time-saver, it allows you to glue up a frame and panel door that's perfectly flat.

torpedo level. One final project in this issue that I'm pretty fond of is a small torpedo level, see page 6. With a walnut body that tapers at the ends and polished brass plates, it has the look and feel of a traditional level.

But don't build the level just for its appearance. There's also a cleve spring-loaded system that lets yo recalibrate the level if it ever gets knocked out of adjustment.

fine tool journal. While we were building the level, I got curious about old levels. So to find out more, I gave Clarence Blanchard a call at the Fine Tool Journal.

The Journal (as he calls it for WHHHpk short) is as unique X f as its logo shown ^^^^^^^^ at left. It'samag-^^^^ azine that's dedi-dfllHHB cated to providing information about old tools. And it even offers an auction service so you can collect old tools. (To find out more about the Fine Tool Journal, you can call 800-248-8114.)

Well, to make a long story short, Clarence not only gave me the information I needed. He also put together the collection of levels shown on the back cover.

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