I recently was going through my old FWW magazines, some going back into the 70s. There was a lot of repetition in them. Probably 6 or so articles on how to built a cross cut sled. All showed basically the same thing. Seen one seen em all. Several on building a 45deg sled. In one from 1991 I think, there was a letter in methods of working telling how to sharpen chisels, plane iron etc on sandpaper glued to glass. When did “scary” sharpening get so big? Including one article about it in a very recent issue of FWW. Numerous articles on how to use dial indicators etc to check out tools. I realize the need for recycling but the same ol sameo does get a little old.
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Some stuff gets left behind that should be reintroduced. The stroke sander should be mentioned again and it was never thoroughly done in the first place. Much more useful than a drum sander in many ways. I first learned about the slot mortiser and loose tenons in FWW and again they never covered the subject with any real depth. I think there was a brief two page article on the subject. In the factories I worked in we had some really wild sanders and machines it would be interesting to see for ideas in the small shops. Profile sanders, drawers sanders, etc. An article on construction boring machines would be interesting. I made a simple jig that does what a construction boring machine does on a shoe string budget. My point is these techniques and machines may seem out of the league of the hobby woodworker but it has value in other applications that would cross over to the small shop.
I recently bought an incomplete set of ShopNotes (issues 32 foward, minus issue 69). The same repetition (with slight variation) occurs there as well.
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