SAPFM Members
in the News
Justin Kauffman won Best in Show in the Traditional Body of Work category at the Milwaukee Fine Furnishing's Show.
Glen Jewell's shop is featured in the America's Top Shop series in the October/November issue of Woodcraft Magazine.
Brian Coe has written about a Moravian Christmas pyramid and describes how to make one in the 2008 Christmas issue of Early American Life.
Mary May's carving career is the subject of a feature article in the October 2008 issue of Woodshop News.
Al Hudson's work is featured in the October/November 2008 issue of American Woodworker Magazine.
Ed Stuckey's Federal demi-lune card table appears in the December 2008 issue of Woodwork magazine.
Tony Kubalak has won the Best Traditional Design Award from the Minnesota Woodworking Guild. Tony exhibited a Philadelphia Queen Anne side chair. You can read more about Tony's honor and the chair in the August issue of Woodshop News.
Congratulations to the following SAPFM members who appear in Early American Life's 23rd Directory of Traditional Crafts: Dennis Bork, James King, Tony Kubalak, Paul Rulli, Mark Soukup, Duane Wendling, Fred Chellis, Brian Cunfer, and Jim Van Hoven. Cartouche Award winner Gene Landon served as one of the judges for this year's Directory.
Eight pieces of Bob Whitley's work from the Michener Art Museum's retrospective exhibit appear in the Gallery of the August 2008 issue of Woodwork magazine.
Walt Segl's shop is featured in an eight-page spread in WOOD magazine's special interest publication America's Best Home Workshops 2008.
Jeff Headley explains how to make a veneered serpentine drawer front with cockbeading in the July/August 2008 Fine Woodworking. In the Master Class feature, Jeff shows how to apply stringing to the same serpentine shape. Joel Ficke and W. Patrick Edwards have work featured in the Reader's Gallery.
Joshua Lane, Co-curator of Historic Deerfield, is mentioned in the May 2008 Magazine Antiques for his role in organizing the exhibition Into the Woods: Crafting Early American Furniture. The exhibition runs through 2012. Visit Historic Deerfield for more information.
Phil Lowe's McIntire armchair, Frank Woolley's serpentine bombé, and Mike Greenberg's collectibles box appear in the Gallery section of the June 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Joel Moskowitz explains how he hollow grinds chisels in the June 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Steve Latta compares 16 different marking knives in the June 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Robert Whitley's furniture is featured through June 1 in a retrospective of his work at the Michener Art Museum. Robert is the 2002 Cartouche Award winner.
Mark Arnold writes about the Peabody Essex Museum's The Art of Woodcarving in America exhibit in the June 2008 issue of Woodwork Magazine.
Tony Kubalak's serpentine bombé and Joel Ficke's Philadelphia high chest appear in the Gallery section of the June 2008 issue of Woodwork Magazine.
Steve Latta writes about reproducing moldings in the April 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Alf Sharp, 2008 Cartouche Award recipient is featured in the March issue of Woodshop News.
Peter Howell's workshop is featured in the February/March 2008 issue of Woodcraft Magazine.
Patrick Edwards writes about painting in wood in February 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking.
The Chairmaker Part III
Finally, the chairmaker makes the seat of the chair that is fastened to the underframe, this requiring him to use the utmost care. Its four rails, of which it (the seat) consists, p. 196, are curved along both outer edges matching the rails of the underframe. When these are curved, they are made straight without a curve to start with. The chairmaker cuts them out of planed stock, marks in the beginning its tenon and mortise, cutting the first and chiseling the later, and determines with that the lengths of the rails. Since the seat is broader at the front than at the back, he has to mark (lay out) the tenon (shoulder) with a bevel gauge, fig. XVI, which is indispensable. Both side rails, l & n and d & m, are mortised into the front rail of the seat, and the back rail, d & l, into the side rails. As soon as these rails are planed and mortised together, they are let into the back legs. The chairmaker cuts at the edges, d & l, of both side rails according to the thickness of the back legs, e & f and g & h, and is now able to lay the seat in this manner on the underframe so that the rear rail, d & l, comes to lay between the back legs. The assembled seat rails are therefore laid in their position on the underframe; he marks the curve of the underframe on the frame of the seat; takes the rails apart again and curves them out with the turning saw. He must follow up on the curves with the drawknife because the saw occasionally leaves rough edges, and he must finally smooth the curve with the rasp and so forth, p. 200. Now, since there is nothing left to hinder him, the rails of the seat are glued together with the help of a bar clamp. And as soon as this is done, he measures off the holes through which the cane is to be fastened with a pair of dividers. For coarse caning the holes are ½ inch apart; for a finer (cane) they are not as far apart. The laid out holes are drilled through with a hand drill, fig. XII. For the sake of greater accuracy, he smooths the upper side of the seat with the smoothing plane, and he pushes a toothing plane, p. 184, over the underside and thereby makes it rough so that the seat can be securely glued to the underframe.
