SAPFM Members
in the News
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 II
9. The marking gauge (Reissmass), fig. VI, of the chairmaker differs somewhat from the marking gauge of the other woodworkers. Only a single four-sided rod, c & d, is inserted into the stock a & b, whereas usually there are two rods inserted in the stock, p. 146. In contrast to this, the aforementioned marking gauge has a pin on two sides of the rod, d & e. The one pin is further from the stock, a & b, than the other, and with them the chairmaker lays out the mortise.
As the mortise must be a little narrower than the tenon, the tenon is scribed without it being necessary to move the beam, c & d, in the stock, a & b. These tools have already been thoroughly discussed in a previous chapter, p. 146.
10. The chairmaker holds the piece of wood to the planing bench with the hold fast (Bankhacken) when he wants to saw off something, cut a tenon, or shape curves. The foot, a & b, fig. 10, of the hold fast is inserted in a hole in the planing bench, and smaller work pieces are pressed between [the bench] and the arm of the hold fast, a & c, thereby causing the foot of the hold fast, a & b, to tilt at an inclined angle in the hole of the planing bench in which it is placed, securely clamping the wood. The wood so clamped can be cut, being held fast by the arm, a & c.
11. Besides the usual screw clamps that the cabinetmaker is in possession of, (Vol. I, p. 72), the chairmaker has a special bar clamp, fig. XIV, that he fastens to two pieces of wood far apart from one another. Both legs, a & c and a & d, join at right angles, [and] the latter, a & d, containing a screw, c. Between the arm, a & d, and the foot, f & g, the chairmaker is able to clamp the wood pieces in the bar clamp. Since the wood pieces can be further apart from one another or closer together, the foot, f & g, on the leg can be moved up or down. It (the foot) is fitted with a rivet, h, attached to the moveable hook, b & h, and this hook can be laid into one or another of the notches of the teeth, b & c. In order that the foot, f & g, won't move during usage, it has behind g & i a tenon that falls into a groove of the leg, a & c without being fastened to it.
