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Great Q&D (quick and dirty) solution. Some time ago I fitted my crosscut table with an INCRA fence and no just add a wood face held by recessed screws. But every now and again, my sacraficial wood fence neede replacing but I don't want to take the time.

A cut-list encourages inexperienced woodworkers to try to use power tools to cut wood to a perfect dimension. As I learned to use hand tools, I began to understand how to cut close to final with power then to final with hand tools. On my current project I am using story sticks ~90% of the time, and I usually have no idea of the actual measurment dimension. It did take some courage to step out of the ruler box - but I just remind myself of what one of my mentor said: "it's just wood!"

Wonderful. I particularly appreciate the asymmetry which seems to suggesting both a cello and a crashing wave evoking a cello crescendo. As an apprentice at inlay/purfling, I admire the way the purfling follow the contour to the corner.

Does the hinge have any screws or is it simply glued to the box and top? And I too would like to see inside the box.

Wonderful work - Congratulations and thanks for your explanations.

Loeser forgets that good artists are masters of their media - all of the great Rennaissance painters had mastery in the physical nature of their media. Same is true of any of the great furniture makers, carvers, etc. That level of mastery requires a thorough foundation in the basics of the discipline and media of their art. Woodworking magazines like FW concentrate on this foundation knowledge. In any field, there are far more novice- and journeyman-level practitioners than masters - a good thing for a commercial entrprise specializing in teaching particular elements of our woodworking discipline. And FW is different from the Rennaissance guilds' philosophy of "here's the right and only way to do this". Instead it shows "here's ONE way to do this".

Finally - Loeser implies that an 'artist' somehow transcends the confines of a discipline. There is as much 'artistry' in confining one's work within a particular woodworking genre (e.g., Federal furniture) as there is in breaking 'free' of it.

So, Mr. Loeser should maybe not bother to buy FW.