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July 17, 2012 By Al Navas

Popular Woodworking Magazine in a Google+ hangout

I had a great hangout today!

As I announced recently, I invited the Publisher and Editors of Popular Woodworking Magazine to join me in a Google+ Hangout on Air.

Joining me in the hangout today were:

  • Kevin Ireland, Publisher
  • Matthew Teague, Editor
  • Robert (Bob) Lang, Executive Editor
  • Steve Shanesy, Senior Editor, and
  • Megan Fitzpatrick, Managing Editor.

We talked about:

  1. The upcoming Woodworking in America conferences in Pasadena, CA, and in Cincinatti, OH
  2. Changes to the organization in the last 9-10 months.
  3. The recently-launched videos of Roy Underhill’s The Woodwright’s Shop.
  4. Hand tools vs. power tools.
  5. Table saw safety.
  6. I forgot to ask Steve about the decision on the Moser table! Sorry Steve!

My thanks to all participants – and my best wishes for a wonderful year in 2012. I hope to see you at one of the upcoming Woodworking in America conferences!

Audio-only file.

Right-click on this link to download the audio-only file. However, if you simply click on the link, the player will open in a new tab, and you will be able to listen on your computer.

The timing of the audio-only file is identical to the following YouTube video:

— Al Navas

Filed Under: Blog, Cincinnati, Conference, Education, Google+, Hangouts, Safety, Table saw, Underhill, Video, Woodworking in America

June 16, 2012 By Al Navas

Woodworking Editors and Authors in Google+ Hangouts, Episode No. 1

Getting back is hard to do.

This episode aired on Google+ and YouTube on June 14, 2012. I am getting back into woodworking, following a seven-month hiatus. Please read on.

#woodworking #hangoutonair +Fine Woodworking #magazine #Editor #Author #blogger

This is the first episode in a new series in Hangouts on Air. It was important to me, as I start preparing mentally to re-enter the shop after a seven-month absence. And avoiding injury has been on my mind; as a result, this was a perfect opportunity to kick off this series, and to get answers to the source of my anxiety – *safety in the shop.* Many of you know I have been preparing to become a Certified Court Interpreter (English < > Spanish) in Missouri, USA – thus the reason for my absence.

I hope other woodworking magazine Editors, book authors, and woodworking bloggers will accept my invitation for a chat in the near future, to talk shop, tools, safety, process, design, etc.

Today I invited the following woodworking colleagues into a hangout:

+Asa Christiana, Editor of Fine Woodworking magazine,

+Matthew Kenney, Senior Editor, Fine Woodworking magazine, and

+Dyami Plotke, of the +Modern Woodworkers Association

to chat in a Google+ hangout about safety, upcoming events with Fine Woodworking, and hand tools vs. power tools in the shop.

My thanks to all participants. Please stand by as I announce additional woodworking hangouts!

Audio-only file: For portability I have split the audio portion of the video, and uploaded it to the Internet Archive. Download it to your portable device, and enjoy listening to the chat while on the move: Click here.

Filed Under: Blog, Education, Google+, Hangouts, Video Tagged With: authors, Google+, hangout, woodworking editors

August 8, 2011 By Al Navas

Keeping things straight when cutting joinery

 

Joinery. Dovetails. Finger joints. Mortise and tenon.

George asked a question

How do I keep the board orientation throughout a project, to make sure the project comes out right without redoing any part of the joinery?

It is extremely helpful to know which side of a board will be oriented to the inside of a box, once the box is assembled. When finger joints are the joinery, it is not critical, as the boards will fit no matter how the boards are assembled; the only requirement is that the finger board match the socket board. On the other hand, the craftsman must be vigilant when dovetails are the joinery. This is why properly marking the surfaces is critical.

For example, I clearly mark the outer surface of the pins boards, to ensure I place the board on the jig properly:

Marked side of board when cutting dovetails

See the little square with the funny little triangle “below” the square? That is the way I learned to mark the boards — it is the icon recommended by Leigh in their User Guide. I learned to use this little icon on the first day I used the old D4 dovetail jig, close to ten years ago. And I still use it today, as I respond to it immediately when reading the side of the board. But about 5 years ago I also started writing the board orientation. If you thought I miscut that a board, you are correct; I started writing the orientation, because I had erased the little icon almost completely, and inserted the board wrong-side-out. Fortunately, I was able to cut off the pins off that board, and the result was a slightly narrower box (a blanket chest).

The following image will give a more complete picture (pardon the pun…) of the complete markings I use on a project — and how I re-mark the boards as I handle them, to ensure I execute the joinery properly:

Marking sides of boards when cutting dovetails

I hope this helps other woodworkers as they use their jigs. And I thank George in South Carolina for asking how I do it.

Now, YOU

What precautions do YOU take to make sure the boards stay oriented properly?

 

— Al Navas

 

 

Filed Under: Blog, D4R Pro, Design, Dovetails, Education, Jigs, Joinery Tagged With: dovetail, Joinery, marking board

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