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(continued) Letters design that I once found so prevalent are now few and far between. And why, oh why do you devote so much of your magazine to the likes of Wendell Castle and Sam Maloof? It's no secret that they are master woodworkers, that their work commands high prices. You insist on representing these people over and over again, while there are thousands of woodworkers, designers and craftspeople who are so deserving and worthy of coverage in a magazine such as yours. I cannot help but be disappointed. -Kitty Kocol, Milwaukee, Wis. I wish to compliment you on the September/October issue. As a specific illustration, I point to Ken Rower's trestle table article with its many nuggets of insight into accomplished furniture design-everything from proportions of overhang and stretcher placement to the use of beveling to blend in toeboard relieving. I realize that such things may be well known to professionals and students, but we self-taught chiselers have to glean the tricks anywhere we find them. Anyone who has ever watched a baseball game will know how to play first base, but as soon as the coach shows you how to tag up with your left foot instead of whatever is handy, he is replacing instinct with civilization. And that's where I'm at. -Thomas H. Peer, Pittsburgh, Pa. I am one who liked the format of the magazine the way it was. With all the advertising and such at the beginning half and the substance the second half, the mind could tun free after the last page. Now advertising has taken priority. -Ken Davignon, Muskegon, Mich. cy. But Your illustration and description of the accessible saw switch (FWW #42, p. 10) leave something to be desired. The idea seems great as a quick way to turn the saw off in an emergen what about the ease of an accidental turn-on? A belt buckle might even do it as you lean over. -William Steinmetz, Santa Barbara, Calif As an amateur woodworker and a pharmacist, I enjoyed George Mustoe's article on respiratory hazards (FWW #41). By chance I came across a review article on documented cases of aplastic anemia and red cell aplasia due to exposure to pentachlorophenol, a wood preservative. The article is authored by Dr. H.). Roberts and appears in the January '83 issue of Southern Medical Journal. Roberts cites six cases from 21 to 73 years of age. One 21year-old, using pentachlorophenol at home for two days to paint furniture, developed aplastic anemia after a month. Another person developed the same anemia after eight months. The author suggests that his research represents only the til2 of FWW the iceberg, because the cause and effect [of previous cases J were overlooked or not sufficiently documented. -Peter ]. Sargalski, Miami, Fla. As a wood collector, I know of at least one domestic source for the doussie which David Kolanek inquired about in #42, p. 16. He is Art Green, 117 Fairfield Ave., Bastrop, La. 71220. As James Krenov points out, the wood is unknown in this country as doussie, but when it is available, it's identified by its genus, which is A/zelia, or African afzelia. -James ]. Heusinger, Berea, Ohio Just to keep the record straight, I'd like to comment on the band saw sharpening article in the May /J une issue (to agree with what it said) and to take exception to what Harold Read said in his letter in the July/August issue. He calls the article wrong in saying that blades get brittle through work-harden- 6 ing. They do. I've spent more than fifty years investigating and coping with the idiosyncrasies of sttuctural steel used in bridges, and there's a misconception that brittle fracture results only from repeated excursions above the yield point of the material. . .. Extensive research has proved that brittle fracture can result from repeated stress well below the yield point. Some steels will fail with only a few hundred thousand repetitions. Others will go several million. The best will go around ten million or more. I think we can agree that a tightly stretched bandsaw blade goes through stress every time it flexes around a wheel. The stress is well below the yield point of the material, so no permanent deformation results. The number of these stress excursions between two moderate stresses, however, will mount up into large totals for a well-used bandsaw blade. -Arthur L. Elliott, Sacramento, Calif Donald Bjorkman's router table (FWW #42) is a handsome variation on a tried-and-true design. OutS is quite similar, but a bit ctuder in the finish. An easy addition to Bjorkman's jig is a hole· cut in the back for a vacuum hose. With a closed box such as this, the vac really pulls the chips away from the cutter. I suspect that the airstream serves to cool the motor also. -Bill Lego, Springfield, Va . It all started when Chuck, a fellow woodworker, mentioned that he knew a farmer with five walnut logs for sale. Chuck and the farmer agreed on a price of $40 for the logs, which were about 18 in. in diameter, straight, and about 8 ft. long. The logs were nine months old, but we considered it a trivial matter since they had been kept up off the ground and were good and solid. Luckily, the farmer had a tractor with a front-end loader, and that, along with much grunting and groaning, got the logs loaded on my pickup truck. We pulled into the log-buyer's yard full of optimism. The buyer came out, looked at Out logs for a few minutes and then said, "Looks like you fellows got a pretty big load of firewood here." He pointed out that the logs were full of radial checks and explained that sawlogs need to be sawn into lumber as soon as possible after cutting. If you can't get them sawn right away, you need to seal the ends and keep the EDITOR·S entire log NOTE: moist. Needless to say, it was a pretty quiet trip home. Still not totally convinced, I sawed one of the logs into firewood lengths and witnessed be exactly what the buyer meant. The checks went all through the log. It wasn't exactly the kind of education I like, but a lesson on sawlogs I'll never forget. -Tom Joch, Fairborn, Ohio FWW While checks may indicate a log unsuitable for sawing, chopping it into firewood is not the only alternative. The log can always be carved, and it can also split, riven with a froe, and drawknifed into usable stock. The checks give you a place to start. Paul McClure's reply to Douglas Newhouse's letter in #40, p. 8, contains some errors. Swietenia macrophylla (aka Brazilian mahogany and Honduras mahogany, and by at least 16 other names) belongs to the family Meliaceae, not Meliazeae. Although S. macrophylla is the true mahogany of today's commerce, it was Chippendale and Hepplewhite who gave mahogany its lasting fame as a cabinet wood. What they used was probably the wood of S. mahagoni, West Indies mahogany, now scarce and virtually impossible to get. The botanical name for sapele should be Entandrophragma cylindricum, not Enpandrophragma cylindricum. Similarly, the correct binomial for tigetwood is Lovoa klaineana, not Lovoa klainea as printed. -Robert D. Pinney, Cedarville, Calif
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