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Letters I enjoyed Phil Lowe's article on cabriole legs (FWW #42), and would like to pass on life was missed. What is the significance of the placement of the label on the bat? some information I came upon by chance Among my earliest memories of the game is twenty years ago. I'd been making legs the same way as Lowe does, bandsawing the pat hearing one of the big kids hollering at me to hold the bat label up. Yet one sees Ben tern and then carving the pad. But I wasn't Oglivie and Dan Ford, for example, hold really happy with them because the pad ing the label fotward. What gives? seemed too small and it also threw the weight of the cabinet in front of the ankle line, -Alan Abrams, Takoma Park, Md. stressing the ankle and risking a break. ing told to hold the label up. The reason is that One day, either in a museum or in an ash, though springy and resilient, is a ring-po antiques magazine, I don't remember which, rous hardwood, and the whack of a ball on the I saw an 18th-century cabinetmaker's tem face grain can crush the earlywood layers, and plate for a cabriole leg. It hit me like a ton weaken the bat. A thump on the edge grain re of bricks: Although the pattern looked a lot bounds on the hard latewood layers. So that batters can tell the difference, batmakers brand like the one I'd been using, the curved line their labels into the face grain. If the label is at the back of the leg went straight down to held up-or down-the barrer is more likely to the floor instead of being undercut. On the hit the pitch with solid edge grain. H&B's Rex next leg I made, I tried it according to the Bradley says that Oglivie and Ford, and many old pattern and found I could carve a much other major leaguers, are so intent on their FWW better-looking pad, about Ys in. larger all I laminate rings of wood together stance and grip that they ignore label position. to make my vessels, which are not around, which was also better balanced and turned on a lathe but sculpted en "It doesn't matter much to good hitters, though," had a less undercut foot. If you look at the tirely by sight and feel. says Bradley. "Bats usually break when the hit pads on Carlyle Lynch's little highboy, on -Robert St. Pierre, Hanover, Mass. comes off the handle. A good hitter is going to p. 32 of that issue, you'll see what I mean. make contaCt up on the sweet spot." I do have to disagree, however, with Lynch's explanation in #41 (p. 20) on how tea table tops were made. Round Having been a regular user of axes, mauls and similarly han tabletops may have been dished out of one piece on the lathe, dled tools for over thirty years, I liked Delbert Greear's but as for the rectangular ones, the moldings were always "Making Ax Handles" (FWW #41). Regretfully, hickory is applied. And tops were held on with glue blocks, not furni not indigenous to my part of the Northwest or I'd surely ture buttons. Also, Lynch's outside profile is misproportioned. make my own handles. I would like to add emphasis to his The "round" shown in his drawing should have been the next-to-last sentence. I've witnessed some bloody and debili actual tabletop. In the original, this is usually about � in. tating injuries caused by the use of axes with faulty handles. thick. The molding is applied on this top. The only time I've When the first sign of damage is noticed, put the ax away ever seen one carved out of a block was if it had depressions until the handle can be replaced. to receive saucers for teacups. There is a quick, if unorthodox, way to remove the wood -Eugene Landon, Montoursville, Pa. from the eye of the ax. Drill a X-in. hole about center, % in. into the old wood. Give the ax head to an explosives expert. "Keeping Ten Fingers" (FWW #42) ought to be absolutely Ask him to put a dynamite cap in the hole and fire it. He'll required reading. Your closing comment succinctly expresses an know the appropriate precautions. I've used this method for idea I hammer with regularity-don't do it if it doesn't look some years. It has never damaged a head and always removes right. Experienced intuition is an acquired asset which must be every last sliver of wood. Those not trained in handling ex trusted in matters of safety. We have invested far toO much plosives must resort to conventional methods of removing the time acquiring skills to vaporize our primary tools in a mo remainder of the tool handle. Initiator explosives such as dyment of impatience. -RJ. Westra, Rolling Meadows, Ill. namite caps are frightfully dangerous to the inexperienced. -Scott Heter, Lewiston, Idaho Re your article "Souping Up the Block Plane," by R.S. Newman (FWW #39): Instead of sending the plane to a machine shop or lapping the sole, I use a scraping procedure. To begin, grind the teeth off the first inch or so of both sides of an old flat file. Next, form a radius on the end of the file. This creates two cutting edges. Spread a vety light coat of bearing blue on a piece of glass and rub your plane over the bluing to mark the high points. Place the plane in a vise. Using the cutting edge of the file, scrape high points from the sole, using X-in. to �-in. push strokes. Alternate the direction of your strokes as work progresses, applying bluing when necessaty to mark high spots. Continue until the bluing marks the surface uniformly. When you're done, the sole will be true, which will reduce drag as you plane. -Richard H. Perrin, Ashaway, R.I. As one who enjoys baseball as much as woodworking, I really appreciated Paul Bertorelli's glimpse of the Hillerich and Bradsby "battety" (FWW #40, pp. 64-65). However, an opportunity to answer a question that has intrigued me all my 4 PAUL BERTORELLI REPLIES: I too remember be Some may apply white glue to wedges before driving them to set an ax handle, but there is another way. I use a wedge cut from a rare, very heavy piece of "pitch pine" passed down to me from Grandpa Small. Touched off by a lighted match, the wedge flames and "bleeds" molten pitch, and it is driven home while flaming. It's stickier and more fun than using white glue. -Jim Small, Newville, Pa. As my subscription to Fine Woodworking comes due, I am questioning whether or not I want to renew it. In the past, I have considered it an essential part of my woodworking reference libraty. In the Methods of Work section, I have found and still do find suggestions. The layout and illustrations are top-notch, and even the advertising has been more useful than annoying. I have noticed a steady decline in useful and uplifting information in the body copy, however. Plans for traditional furniture are available in reference sources which are more complete, and the presentation of innovative concepts and
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