On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:16:00 -0800, charlie b wrote:

Why all the plans for Arts & Craft / Greene & Greene / Stickley pieces
in magazines - and NONE on chinese furniture and joinery. There's a
long and deep pool of joinery and design waiting to be tapped by an
editor and I for one am awaiting some of that info with great
anticipation.

I have a several books on joinery, and a few have a little bit on Chinese
joinery. I look at them and think I'm not that good and may well never
be. I suspect that's why you don't see much in the magazines. With few
exceptions, they cater to beginning and intermediate woodworkers, whose
reaction to those joints would probably be worse than mine.

But I did like the suggestion about more on finishing. Especially more
on dyes because they're so much more versatile than stains. More on
shellac, which is a lot tougher finish than most people think. More on
toning to avoid blotching.

I'm glad you brought the subject up. And I vow to respond no more to OT
political posts. At least for a few months :-).

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