Woodworker's Journal 1980-4-5, страница 4

Shoptalk

The New Look

Here, after nearly four years of newsprint publishing, is our new magazine. As you can see, the editorial content is just about the same as it's been in the past, but in a more compact format.

Getting this act together took considerably more time than we expected...so it may reach some of you a few days later than usual. I apologize for this delay, and hope that you will be pleased with our new look.

The Workbench

The cabinetmaker's workbench featured in this issue is one of our more ambitious projects and one that quite appropriately launches the new magazine. This is the kind of bench that every serious woodworker dreams of owning and passing on to succeeding generations. Commercially produced benches are pretty expensive items and this one, if it were available, would probably retail for about $900.00.

Working off and on over a period of one month, Roger Schroeder built the bench shown in the photos and clearly demonstrated that he is a first class craftsman. The workmanship is superb. In fact, the bench is so beautiful we still haven't decided whether to actually use it in our shop or just keep it on display in the office.

Roger bought all lumber and hardware for the project and spent about $320.00. He feels that, if some scrap stock is used for drawer frames and other parts, the bench can be

built for under $300.00...which should bring it within the reach of most of our readers.

As with all major projects, this one may appear somewhat overwhelming at first but when analyzed and broken down into its sub-assemblies and taken one step at a time, it's really not that difficult an undertaking.

Let Your Fingers Do the Walking

We regularly receive a number of letters from readers who want to manufacture wooden items for sale. Most of them inquire as to where they can get hardware and cabinet lumber wholesale. While we know of many wholesale suppliers, it's not often that we can match up a supplier with a particular reader's area.

Shipping lumber costs money and it is certainly not in the best interest of a small cabinet shop in New Mexico to order a large shipment of hardwood F.O.B. from Pennsylvania. At the risk of sounding facetious, we usually advise the reader to first check the yellow pages of the telephone directory of his or her town, or if it's a small town, to check the directory of the nearest large city. Almost always, hardware and lumber wholesalers will be listed. That's the first and most obvious place to start looking. If the particular wholesaler you call cannot supply a specific item, they can can usually direct you to another source close to home.

In order to gain wholesale prices, it may or may not be necessary for you to invest a few bucks in having business letterheads printed and you'll probably have to apply to the state for a tax number in order to purchase raw materials without having to pay state sales tax.

Jim Mc Quillan

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