Woodworker's Journal 2010-34-1, страница 10
Letters continued WOODWORKER'S JOURNAL ON THE WEB If you haven't checked out our blog yet, you're missing some of the best online woodworking stories around. Every week we post several short woodworking-based entries. They cover a wide range of topics — everything from projects readers have built to eulogies of legendary woodworkers recently departed. Visit www.woodworkersjournal.com L MORE ON THE WEB ^QUIK-LINK WWJ STORE fcuuifcfcer My solution is not to apply the pattern with spray adhesive, but to use a ponce wheel to transfer the pattern onto posterboard. This way, you can cut the posterboard template and trace the pattern to your workpiece. I am enclosing a photo showing a section of a drawing of a grandmother clock which shows the radius of some of the pieces I traced. You can see the drawing is intact, and I have the templates I need to mark Bill Agriesti borrows a technique from another how-to hobby — sewing — to transfer drawings. Two of our readers built their own versions of our platform bed. One of them pipes up about the complicated base on the original. around the edges onto the workpiece. The ponce wheel has a series of teeth around the perimeter of the wheel that perforate the drawing, leaving indentations on the posterboard. — Bill Agriesti Sarasota, Florida Freshly Made Beds I thought you might like to see my interpretation of the Cantilevered Platform Bed from your February 2009 issue. I had some bamboo plywood left from the kitchen cabinets and, since the floor in the bedroom is carbonized bamboo, I thought it would go together well. I really enjoy your magazine and look forward to each new issue. — Louis Yearby Desert Hot Springs, California Your Platform Bed article in the February 2009 issue gave me the urge to build one for my daughter. However, the complicated base was a bit much, so I looked around and replaced it with 1" pipe. [The top photo] is my version. Thanks for the ideas. — Fredrick Peterkin Gainesville, Florida Left-Handed Trick Just received my October 2009 edition and saw Michael Gaule's Tricks of the Trade wedge-style bench vise. Not having my new workbench ready to go, this will come in handy. One thing you should point out, however, is that, as pictured, it is for a left-handed person. This assumes you want the workpiece close to the edge of the bench. — Dick Culp Bainbridge Island, Washington Interesting article about laminate spacers [Tricks of the Trade, August 2009], but in my experience, I have found something better than newspaper. We have tried the newspaper trick and, on occasion, small pieces or a piece of newspaper tears off. Removing the torn piece of newspaper is almost impossible, and if you do not realize a piece has torn off, the leftover piece has a chance to show in the finished laminate. A much better solution is plastic mini-blind strips. Disassemble the mini-blind, saving the plastic blind strips. When laminating, place the curved (humped) portion up, leaving just the edges touching the contact cement. When removing the strips, because they are plastic there is no problem with tearing, sticking or anything, and replacement is cheap and easy. — Lee Carlile St. George, Utah 10 February 2010 Woodworker's Journal |
