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woodezine - Volume
III - Issue VI - JUNE 2005
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Woodworking News
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Horizontal Router A horizontal routing table is "much safer and more accurate than standing wide stock on edge", according to MLCS. Their new table eliminates the need for tall auxiliary fences, multiple featherboards and numerous jigs. You can quickly and easily make mortise and tenon joinery, raise panels with vertical panel bits, mill moldings and create picture frames. This benchtop table features micro adjustable bit height adjustments. 1/16" per turn allows for very precise adjustments. The table is 24" wide x 20" deep x 25" tall with a sturdy 3/4" thick MDF core, durable melamine surface and polyethylene plastic edges. Extension fences on both sides of the router plate support long stock and give maximum stock support. The 3/8" thick, 11-3/4" x 11-1/2" router plate is held in routing position by sturdy aluminum extrusions, along with two locking knobs which safely secure the sliding router plate in position. You can install a 3HP or smaller router. Raise or lower the router up to 2-1/8" below or 2-3/8" above the table. A router is not included, and MLCS has an offer on their Web site this month for $189.95. |
NICHE Publisher in Maryland's Top 100 Women List
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Arts business entrepreneur Wendy Rosen has been recognized as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women by The Daily Record, a business and legal daily newspaper. Rosen is the founder and owner of The Rosen Group, a 24-year-old Baltimore-based arts marketing, publishing and advocacy firm. Her accomplishments include ten years of publishing AmericanStyle magazine, a nationally recognized arts and travel lifestyle bi-monthly. Wendy also transformed a vacant textile factory into the Mill Centre Artist Studio Complex, which offers affordable studio and office space to 90 tenants. She mentors artists on how to take their careers to higher levels while helping to grow the community at large. Ms. Rosen received her nomination for the list from Isabel Cumming, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City. Produced by The Daily Record since 1996, this annual award program acknowledges one hundred of Maryland's leading women who are making an impact on the state. |
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| Ms. Rosen's company, the Rosen Group, is a Baltimore-based arts marketing, publishing and advocacy firm which produces the biannual Philadelphia Buyers Market of American Craft, the world's largest wholesale arts event, and also publishes two magazines - NICHE, the exclusive trade publication for fine American craft retailers, and AmericanStyle, a consumer lifestyle magazine for collectors of American art and fine craft. |
New Tests: Ceramic v. Carbide
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Carbide Processors Inc., the manufacturers of Cermets-tipped ceramic saw blades, are currently running a new set of tests on their cutters at the western campus of the University of British Columbia. Previous tests have indicated that ceramic-tipped saw blades hold an edge several times as long as carbide-tipped blades. In the new tests, the company will use a router and run several tests at different feed rates. Previous testing in plants and shops has shown that ceramics do much better when run faster than carbide. The company expects to be able to run ceramics twice as fast as carbide, and achieve several times the life with cleaner cuts and less noise. |
For more info on ceramic tipped blades, visit the company online.
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