Woodworking Tage Teaches Frid Book2: Shaping, Veneering, Finishing A step-by-step guidebook to essential woodworking* technique written by a master craftsman A Fine Woodworking Book * ™ *— " SeCWW-,hre 1 i^ng. Tage thau'eCs"hoarf"h',S Lf ' deta*iloedn i,l0l-unsetrrya.tiaonnsd. JT,'" ne essentials of bending (ev- "~ : d a steambox to working ,,ds). turn.ng (spindle and face- DL,a.tn wood), asntdacvkeinnegerainndg (bwriitchklcaylianmgp,s,tuprrneisngs or hammer) He even demonstrates the intrica- cies of carving, inlaying and finishing Distilled ,nto over 200 pages of step-by-step instructions everything this master craftsman has learned ins a lifetime as a cabinetmaker All the funda- mentals a beginner needs to know are here, along with methods complicated enough to challenge the most skilled craftsman Tage Fnd came to America from his native Den- mark in 1948. when the American Crafts Coun- cil invited him to start this country's first college designer-craftsmen in program for training wood He soon became a professor (and later a professor emeritus) of furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, where he woodworkers taught many of today's leading Now retired from his teaching position. Fnd con- tinues to offer workshops and seminars around the country, and is generally considered to be one of the nation's leading craftsmen His work canbe found in manyfine homes and prestigious national collections In 1975. Fnd became a contributing editor of Fine Woodworking magazine It quickly became apparent that his informative articleswere one of the magazine's most popular features, and also that bimonthly publication could allow him to share only a small portion of his vast knowledge So Fnd converted his woodworking shop into a photo studio and began preparing a series of three books, structured the same way as the courses he's taught The series is now com- plete In addition to this book, there is an earlier volume on joinery and a third volume in which Fnd offers plans and instructions for some mar- velous furniture of his own design Together, these books offer woodworkers an invaluable opportunity to learn their craft from a true old- world master. Tage FridTeachesWoodworking Book2: Shaping,Veneering, Finishing Tage Teaches Woodworking Frid Book2: Shaping, Veneering, Finish T TheTkuntonPress Coverillustration Whenbendingwoodarounda smallform. It'ssometimesimpossibletogel thefight numberof regular quick-actionclampson. soFnd useshexclampsthathemakes himself Howtodon isexplainedonp 14 °1981 byTheTaunton Press. Inc Allrightsreserved Fourthprinting August 1985 International Standard BookNumber0-918804-11-6 LibraryofCongressCatalogCard Number78-65178 Printedm theUnitedStatesofAmerica VOOOWORKiNG9isa trademarkofTheTauntonPress. Inc registeredintheUS PatentandTrademarkOffice TheTaunton Press. Inc 63SouthMainStreet Sox355 o^necticut06470 Contents Bending 1 Steam Bending 2 Wood for Bending 3 The Steambox 4 Bending Straps 6 Forms 7 The Steam-Bending Process 8 Laminating 10 Gluing Up the Laminates 12 Clamps and Clamping 14 Complicated Bends 19 Two-Part Form 21 Compound Lamination 23 Tapered Lamination 25 2 Scrapers The Scraper Blade 28 The Cabinet Scraper 35 3 Carving Types of Carving 40 Tools 40 Carving a Bowl 43 Textured Surfaces 46 Smoothing Out 47 Carving the Outside 49 Smoothing the Outside 53 4 Spindle Turning Types of Turning 58 The Lathe 58 Mounting the Work 61 Tools 62 Roughing Out a Cylinder 63 Dimensioning a Cylinder 65 A Dimensioning Jig 69 Scraping Versus Carving 70 Off-Center and Half-Round Turning 74 Sanding 77 , 5 Faceplate Turning Mounting the Work BO Tools 81 Turning a Bowl 83 Another Way to Moi. HI luming Bowls with Bast 88 Off-Centei Unnnu] 91 Turning Large Bowls 93 Stacking 93 Green Wood 96 Bricklaying 98 6 Plywood and Veneer History 112 Plywood 112 Plywood Manufacture 113 Plywood Construction 114 Plywood Grading 116 Other Materials 117 Veneering 118 Glues and Gluing 122 Facings 124 Hammer-Veneering 126 The Veneer Saw 126 Veneer Hammers 128 Edge Veneering 128 Veneering Large Surfaces 131 Hard-to-Handle Veneer 135 Preparing Veneer 137 Veneering with Clamps 140 The Veneer Press 142 Bending Plywood 146 Making the Form 147 Forming the Bend 153 Sandbag-Veneering 156