Woodworker's Journal 2011-35-1, страница 15

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To help avoid tearout while using stile and rail bits on a router table, field editor Chris Marshall recommends using properly sharpened router bits, a featherboard setup to help control the stock and taking more than one pass, if needed, to form the sticking profile.

material almost always reduces the tendency for tearout (especially in wood that features wild or curly grain). Just make sure to have a featherboard in place over the bit to keep workpieces pressed down against the table when making multiple passes. Any vertical movement will ruiri the cut.

— Chris Marshall

QI have been advised that there is a beetle that has become a threat to black walnut trees (and their relatives), that it is in the Western United States, and that the bug could cross the Mississippi River soon. I was also advised that walnut grown west of the Mississippi River should not be brought (or shipped) to anywhere east of the Mississippi River to prevent the disease from spreading.

1 also heard that a l)eetle has invaded North America from China. It is attacking ash trees, and some foresters are saying that it will probably wipe them off the face of the continent.

Is there truth to these stories, or an* they just legends?

Eill Greaves Staten Island, New York

A Both of the stories you have talked about are true. The black walnut tree threat (known as 1000 Cankers disease) is in many Western states and, according to some unverified reports, has crossed the Mississippi River to the east.

The emerald ash borer is moving unchecked across our Eastern hardwood forests. Barring a successful chemical or biological treatment, il will certainly be the end of the ash tree population as we know it.

— Rob Johnstone

QI am trying to finish an old breakfront that has a painted antique finish. 1 can't strip, as it has parts done in veneer. I'm thinking of a painted antique finish, such as painting a base coat of red and black over the red, then sanding the black to show some of the red. Will this work, or do you have any other ideas?

Gene Frants Woodside. California

A Let's start with the statement "1 can't strip as it has parts done in veneer." That is completely erroneous.

You most certainly can strip it, using paint remover, without affecting the veneer one way or the other. Bear in mind that the vast majority of furniture is veneered, and if paint remover could not safely

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This iridescent emerald invader is causing havoc in the native ash population of the Eastern United States. So far, attempts to slow it down have failed.

handle that, it would disappear from the marketplace.

That leaves us with the question of whether you need to strip the existing finish. While it is a good idea lo do so, it is not always necessary.

Ash Lumber

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