Woodworker's Journal 2004-28-6, страница 16

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Fencing 0ff..Set

[The August mystery tool is] half a set of offset fences, used when you mold or plane with a radial saw. The saw shaft is rotated into the vertical position and the blade is replaced with a molding head and cutter. The idea is the same as the in and out tables on a jointer. The outfence side is adjusted to make up for the wood removed.

I've never used the ones I have. They were given to me, 40 years ago, by Three-fingered Ralph, and he had used them only once. Since then, they only come out for pictures. You will notice, I have washed the 40-year-

old blood off them for the photo.

— Garth Jones via Internet

No Need to Swing the Arm

Well. Garth, let's hope that "Three-fingered Ralph* got his nickname by using the mystery tool incorrectly — although C. Christy of Trussville, Alabama, does agree that, "you need two of them, and it is safer if they are not attached to two separate pieces of wood. One long piece with a cut for the molding cutterhead is safer."

The way you should use it, according to W. Leroy Cole

Craftsman

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of Wellington, Kansas — who owns and has read the directions, is that, '"Hie flat angle on one side is to be clamped in the table. The pieces on the top can be turned to the desired angle you want to make various cuts such as shaping, edge jointing with planer blades, circular edge shaping, miter cuts and cross cutting/'

Luther Woodward of Liverpool, Ohio, goes on, 'The complete setup contains two pieces (one right- and one left-handed.) There are holes to attach wood fences