04 The Furniture of Rublmann
March/April 1985,
No.
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Cover: A rosewood cabinet inlaid with iVOry richly illustrates why woodworkers are taking a new l o o k at 20th-c e n t u r y m a s t e r jacques·Emile Ruhlmann. See p. 30. Photo: The Metropolitan Museum oJ Art, Edward C. Moore jr. Gift Fund, 1925.
Paul Bertorel l i Art Director
Deborah Fillion Associ,de Editors
Jim Cummins Roger Holmes Assistant Editors
Dick Burrows David Sloan
Departments
Jointer thicknessing; patching veneer; jigsaw blower ontoxic finishes; high-speed steel; airless sprayers
Restorarion vs. conservarion; wildfowl carving
Copy Editor
ancy Stabile Associate Art Diredor
orthern woodworking; quest for ebony; chainsaw addicrs; fracrion calculators reviewed
Roland Wolf Editorial Secretary
Cindy Howard
The bowsaw is excellent Jor joint· cutting or cutoff work. See p. 52 Jor plans. Photo: Simon Watts.
Senior Editor
John Kelsey Contributing Editors
Tage Frid R. Bruce Hoadley Richard Starr Simon Watts
Articles
Jacques-Emile Ru
ann by A.U Chastain- Chapman
A 20th-century master rediscovered
Restoring Ruhlmann by Nick Monjardo and David Parson
Getting uncleI' the veneer
Flip-Top Table by Robert March
Consulting Editors
Double-duty design
George Frank Otto Heuer Ian J. Kirby Don Newel l Richard Preiss Norman Vandal
Hollow-Chisel Mortising by john Leeke
Straregies for boring accurate square holes
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Testing Wood Chisels by Bill Stankus
Lab finds no secrets in the steel
A visit to a chisel factory by David Sloan
Methods of Work
Jim Richey
A second opinion by Paul Horgan Ash by jon W. Arno
Counterfeit oak or quality cabinetwood?
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