A
acrylic varnish 167 air press benches 107 American oak 13, 136, 187 angle
gauges 182 angled joints 112-13 arbors 78, 81, 184 Arts and Craft style
45, 130, 137, 142, 143 ash 116, 124, 187
B
back saws 32 Bailey planes 23, 184 band cramps 102, 113, 158 handsaws 14,
84-91 blade drift 87, 184 blades 86-8, 101, 105, 106 for chair components
110, 179 cutting lamina 10 1 for dovetails 160 feed-rate 84, 90, 184
guides 89-90, 105-6 maintenance 91 safety 85 teeth 86-7 for veneers 104-7,
163, 166 wheel alignment 88-9 Bedrock planes 22, 23, 184 beech 12, 13, 40
beeswax 121, 155 bending wood 100-1 biscuit joints 98, 148, 184 blade
drift 87, 184 block-planes 23, 167, 184 boards 12, 14-17, 170 see also
veneered table; veneering brass hinges 161 bridle joints 47-8, 117-19,
143, 144, 184 burnishers 36, 37, 184 burrs 17, 184 butt joints 44, 128,
136
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C
cabinet saws 78 carcass joints 46-55 carcass dovetails 46, 54-5 halving joints 52-3 mortice and tenon 46, 47-52 carcasses for drawers 63 carnauba paste 175 cauls 102, 184 cedar of Lebanon 13, 62, 67, 129, 187chairs 108-13 templates 109 marking out 109 bandsawn parts 110 trimming to size 110-11 bulk removal 112 angled joints 112-13 assembly 112, 113 finishing 113 see also set of dining chairs chamfers 45, 108, 113, 154 chestnut 116, 124 chests of drawers 63 chip-breakers 20 chisels 24-9 chopping with 24, 25, 26 Japanese 25 paring with 24, 25, 27-8, 185 sharpening 29 types 24-5 chopping board 40-5 circular saw benches 78-83, 186 angled cuts 81 blades 8 1-2 dust extraction 83 fences 80-1 riving knife and guard 79, 83 safety 80 table adjustment 82 coopered box 156-61 shooting board 156 coopering 157-8 edge rebates 158 curved groove 159 dovetails 160 one-piece box 161 hinging 161 coping saws 47 crosscutting 32, 184 curved components 110-11, 112 elliptical tabletop 170-1 cutting gauges 43
Danish oil 129, 135, 183 demilune table 168-75 construction diagram 169 contrasting woods 170 boards 170 elliptical curve 170-1 tapered legs 171 ebony feet 172 apron rails 173 ebony beading 173-4 scratch stock 174 under frame 174 finishing 175 diamond stones 21 disc sanders 112 domino jointing 99, 184 doors (wardrobe) 155 dovetail joints 46, 54-5, 56-61, 187 for coopered box 160 for drawers 63, 64-7 fitting 60 jigs 96 lapped 64-7, 185 for oak bookcase 132, 133 pins 56, 61 secret mitre dovetails 60-1, 165 sockets 59, 61, 65-7 tails 56, 57-8 dovetail saws 32, 33 dowel joints 99, 113, 146, 174, 184 drawers 62-7, 140-1 bases 67 dovetail joints 63, 64-7, 140-1 fitting 67 oak bedside cabinet 140-1 oak wardrobe 154 drying timber 14, 16 dust extraction 68-9, 83, 185 from bandsaws 91 Dutch elm disease 122
ebony 170, 172, 173, 174 ebony beading 173-4 ebony feet 172 edge joints 40-5, 120-1 chair seats 178 gluing up 44-5 veneers 163, 164 elm 122, 123, 187 elm cabinet 122-9 wood 122, 123 cutting list 124 framework 124-5 fielded panels 125-6 book-matching 127 hinges 127-8 top 128 linings 129 finishing 129 end-snipe 74 epoxy resins 103
F
fences bandsaws 105 circular saw benches 80-1 planers 71, 73 ferrules 24, 184 fielding 125, 126 fillets 148, 149 finishing chairs 113 demilune table 175 elm cabinet 129 laminating 103 oak bed 149 oak bedside cabinets 141 oak bookcase 135 oak stool 121 oak wardrobe 155 set of dining chairs 183 veneered table 167 flitch cut boards 185 flow rates 188 formaldehyde resins 103 formers 102 Forstner drill 124
G
gauges 43, 47 glue lines 103, 185 glues 103 gluing edge joints 44-5
laminating 103 veneers 107, 163-4 grain 14 grooves 92-4, 159, 165, 180
guards 73, 184 gullets 84, 87, 185
H
halving joints 52-3 hardpoint saws 34 hardwoods 12, 13 see also names of
individual species haunched mortice and tenon joints 46, 48-51, 185 High
Volume Low Pressure (HVLP) 167 hinges 127-8, 161 honing guides 20, 29
honing planer knives 77
J
Japanese chisels 25 jigs angled joints 113 dovetail joints 96 mortice and tenon joints 95, 113, 138 joints see angled joints; biscuit joints; dovetail joints; dowel joints; edge joints; mortice and tenon joints
K
kerfs 32, 33, 185 kickback 78, 80, 185 kiln-drying 16, 17, 143, 185 knives for planers 75-7 sharpening 76
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L laminating 100-3, 185 bandsaws for cutting lamina 101 bending wood 100
demilune table 172-4 finishes 103 formers 102 glue fines 103, 185 gluing
103 micro-laminating (ebony beading) 173-4 pr~ 102 larch 12 legs hollow
166 tapered 171 lie Nielsen scraper 39 London plane 12, 14
M
maple 13 marking 30-2, 33 angled joints 112 chairs 109 elliptical tabletop
170-1 marking gauges 43, 65, 185 marking knives 31 MW 163,185 measurement
conversion 188 medullary rays 12, 14, 170 micro-laminating (ebony beading)
173-4 moisture content of timber 15, 16, 185 mortice chisels 25 mortice
gauges 47, 185 mortice and tenon joints 46, 47-52, 185, 186 bolted 147-8
bridle joints 47-8, 117-19, 143, 144, 184 haunched 46, 48-51 jigs 95, 113,
138 oak bed 143, 144 through tenons 52, 186 with wedges (dining chairs)
182
O
oak 12, 13, 14, 15, 62, 124, 170, 187 brown 178, 187 oak bed 142-9 timber
preparation 142-3 cutting list 144 shaping arches 143 mortice and tenon
joints 143, 144 slats 145-6 headboard and foot 146 bolted mortice and
tenons 147-8 biscuiting 148 divan supports 148-9 finishing 149 oak bedside
cabinets 136-41 cutting list 139 arched rails 137-8 slats 138, 140
chamfers 140 drawers 140-1 top fitting 141 finishing 141 oak bookcase
130-5 wood 130, 132 construction and cutting list 131 dovetail ends 132
dovetail housings 133 arches or feet 134 chamfering 134 assembly 134-5
backpanel 135 finishing 135 oak stool 116-21 timber preparation 116-17
marking joints 117-18 cutting joints 119-20 fitting joints 120 scat top
120-1 finishing 121 oak wardrobe 150-5 construction diagram 151 cutting
list 152 post and rail 150 oak frame 151-2 panel joints 153-4 chamfers 154
drawers 154 doors 155 finishing 155 Oire Norni 25
panel joints 153-4 panel saws 32, 33, 185 panels 125-6, 152 PCD 185 pencils for marking 31 pine 12 pistol grips 185 pitch 185 pith 14, 15, 185 plane (tree species) 12, 14 planers/thicknessers 70-7, 185, 186 knives 75-7 safety 72 planes 18-23 Bailey and Norris adjustors 23, 185 Bedrock planes 22, 23, 184 block-planes 23, 167, 184 compass planes 111 frog 23, 185 grinding angles 20 mouth width 22 rebate planes 125, 126 sharpening 20, 21 sizes 18-19 wooden (for smoothing a hollow) 18 1 planing angling the plane 117 curved chair components 111 edges 42-3, 44, 71 faces 41, 71, 72-3 with and against the grain 18, 22 coopering 157-8 fielded panels 125-6 plywood 100, 185 polyurethane glues 103 power saws 30 presses 102, 107, 164 PVA glues 103
Q
quarter-sawn boards 12, 14, 15, 170, 18.5
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rebates 135, 158 reference edges 42-3 reference faces 41, 43 ripsaws 32 riving knives 79, 185 'rods' 109, 185 rotary carvers 111, 112, 180-1 routers 92-7, 129 bearing-guided cutters 94, 135 for curved chair components 110-11, 180-1 for cutting grooves 92-4, 159, 180 for dovetail joints 96, 132-3 feed-rate 98 for mortice and tenon joints 95, 137-8 with profiling bits 95 on a table 94 TCT and FISS bits 97,185 for trimming edges 94, 95 rowed 70, 186
S
safety bandsaws 85 circular saw benches 80 with M13F 163 planers 72 sanding blocks 186 sapwood 14, 186 saws/sawing 30-5 blade drift 35, 184 blades 34 dovetail joints 58, 59 fine sawing 34-5 keeping straight 35 lapped dovetail joints 65, 66-7 marking 30-2, 33 sharpening 34 tenons 47, 49 types of saws 30, 32, 33, 34 see also bandsaws; circular saw benches scrapers 36-9, 186 holders 39 hooked edge 37-8 shaped blades 39 scratch stocks 39, 174, 186 set of dining chairs 176-83 construction diagram 177 economy of scale 176 brown oak 178 making the seats 178 bandsaw shaping 179 dishing the seats 180 swinging cutter 180-1 smoothing the hollow 18 1 numbering parts 18 1 back construction 182 glue-up the frame 182 finishing 183 sharpening chisels 29 knives for planers 76 saw blades 34 Shinogi Usu Tsuki Nomi 25 shooting boards 156, 157, 164 sledges 111, 186 softwoods 12, 13 spokeshaves 108, 110, 111 squares 42 Stanley No.80 39 steaming wood 100, 101 steel cutters 21 stickers 15, 16 strap clamps 102 substrate 105 swinging cutter 180-1 Swiss files 34 sycamore 13, 40, 187
tables see dernilune table; veneered table teedi back saws 32 bandsaws 86-7 templates 109, 179, 180, 186 tenon saws 32, 47 tenons see mortice and tenon joints thicknessing/thicknessers 43, 72, 74, 165 timber air dried 16, 184 choice of 12-13 condition 14-15 drying 14, 16, 17, 143 fibres 14, 100 finding 12 kiln-dried 16, 17, 143, 185 rough-sawn and planed 17 sawing into boards 14-15 storage 116, 131-2, 142-3 for veneers 163 see also individual species timber conversion 14, 170 tpi 32, 186 tree growth 13, 14 try squares 42, 186
V
vacuum presses 102, 107, 164 veneered table 162-7 thickness 162 bandsaw veneer 163 preparing the ground 163-4 framework 165 frame the top 165-6 hollow legs 166 finishing 167 veneering 102, 104-7 bandsaw preparation 105, 163 gluing 107, 163-4 presses 107, 164 slicing the timber 106-7, 163 thickness 106, 107, 162, 163 see also veneered table
W
walnut 13, 15, 187 for veneered table 163, 164, 165 wastage 17 waterstones
21, 186 whetstones 21, 70, 186 winding sticks 41 'wood movement' 16
woodchips 68, 69 woods for furniture making 187 see also names ofindividual
species; ti mber
Y
yacht varnish 129 yew 13
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