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Issue 44 March 1999 PUBLISHER EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR ASSISTANT EDITOR ART DIRECTOR SR. GRAPHIC DESIGNER SENIOR ILLUSTRATORS Donald B. Peschke Tim Robertson Tom Begnal Bryan Nelson Gary Christensen Kurt Sehultz Roger Reiland Mark Higdon CREATIVE RESOURCES Creative Director: Ted Kralicek • Project Developer: Ken Munkel • Senior Project Designer: Kevin Boyle • Project Coordinator. Kent Welsh • Shop Manager: Steve Curtis • Shop Craftsman: Steve Johnson • Senior Photographer: Crayola England • Photographer: Roderick Kennedy BOOStS Executive Editor: Douglas L. Hicks • Art Director: Steve Lueder • Sr. Graphic Designer: Chris Glowaeki • Asst. Editors: Joe Irwin, Craig Ruegsegger CIRCULATION Sub- Sen. Dir.-Sandy Baum • New Bus. Dir.: GlendaBattles • Renewal Mgr.: Paige Rogers • Billing Mgr.: Rebecca Cunningham • Prom. Mgr.: Rick Jimkins • New Bun. Mgr.: Todd L. Bierle • Asst. Sub. Mgr.: Joy Krause • Sr. Graphic Designer: Cheryl L. 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WxxlMt NOW ON THE WEB! • 101 Woodworking Tips Online • Woodworking Techniques — Step-by-Step • Project plans you can download • WoodNet Forum — Woodworkers' Q & A • Power Tool Reviews Point your browser to: http://www.aug-usthome.com Select "Woodworking" from the Welcome Page menu. editors note Cutoffs If it's in your way, put it away. As a kid, that was the rule that was intended to keep our garage from getting too cluttered up. There's only one problem. For rules to work, you have to follow them. I found that out the hard way. I laid my bike down on the garage floor. (After all, it wasn't in my way.) Still, it didn't prevent the bike from getting crumpled when my father backed over it with the truck. As the years have gone by, I've come to realize the wisdom of that rule. But I have to admit, I don't always follow it as well as I should. catch-all. For instance, there's one corner in my shop that's sort of a catch-all. (One of those places that the spiders like to hang out.) It's the type of place where I put things and forget they're even there — odd lengths of threaded rod, strips of molding from an old project, and metal corner beads from the time I drywalled my kid's room. In front of this clutter was a plastic bucket with dowels sticking out of it like pencils in a jar. So recently, I decided to do something about that corner. I slid out the bucket, brushed off the cobwebs, and sorted through the junk. Well, the corner was cleaner alright. But as I set the bucket of dowels back in place, I realized I was up to my old tricks again. The dowels were out of the way. But what I really needed was some method of organizing them — a better way to put them away. dowel rack. The solution was a rack that uses a simple "stairstep" design to organize dowels by length. This rack works great for storing dowels. But it's also a good way to organize any long strips of material — like pieces of angle iron, threaded rod, or strips of molding. (For more on this Dowel Storage Rack, refer to the article beginning on page 6.) grinding station. A similar thing happened with my grinder. It was sitting on the end of my bench where I'd been using it to sharpen my chisels. So I picked up the grinder and turned around to put it away. In this case, "putting it away" meant sitting the grinder on a shelf that was already filled with too much stuff. Once again, I was just moving things around to make it appear like they were organized. But they really weren't. In a day or two, I'd have to haul out the grinder again, lug it to the bench, and then repeat the entire process all over again. This time, a better solution turned out to be a wall-mounted Grinding Station like the one shown on the cover. It's a permanent "home" for my grinder. 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