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To view the archive of Bevel Cut articles through May, 2020, click Resources from the Home page.  Then click Bevel Cut Articles.

The Perpetual Novice returns to provide a public service.  Previous Perpetual Novice articles have attempted to look at the trials and errors of learning the woodworking craft with a bit of humor. This one is different in that it is serious. I’ve been surprised of late to see the “wrong” alcohols in a number of people’s shops. I’ve known about this for a long time and assumed it was general knowledge, but since it doesn’t seem to be, allow me this one time to slip into lecture mode.

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Andrew has found a way to write a new article at the confluence of math, woodworking design, and the physical sciences.  And all because of an advertisement he read for a new Woodpecker's product.  By the way, despite the title of his article he did not mix in any culinary aspects.

It turns out Woodpecker is selling a gadget that assists in the design of furniture using width - length proportions dictated by the golden rule.  This stimulated Andrew to think about the 12th-13th century mathematician Fibonacci and his number series that follows that the next term is the sum of the previous two.  I could go on but I think I'll leave it to Andrew with his newest Bevel Cut article "Fibonacci is Not a Pizza Topping".

After you read it, ask yourself: have you ever seen an advertisement trigger such a result?

Andrew welcomes your feedback.

The Johnsons wrote with positive feedback on the website.

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Thanks to Allen Ganser for video taping, editing and posting the presentation by Phil Lowe on Achieving Curved Furniture Components. It is now part of our Guild Video Library. 

Click to watch: Achieving Curved Furniture Components

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To emphasize that request, we received an unsolicited email from Michael Coughlin, a mental health clinician working in several Boston EDs with an urgent request for PPEs, especially, N95 masks and clear (non-mesh) face shields for Carney Hospital in Dorchester.  It was a heart-wrenching email for concern for the understaffed and under-equipped healthcare workers.  They are in such need, someone will come to pick up whatever you can offer that are in reasonably good shape.  (For example, some hospitals are decontaminating N95 masks using vaporized hydrogen peroxide.)  Please call Michael at 781-856-2032.  Thank you.

Now that you are recovering from last month's article on math applications in woodworking entitled "Arithmetic Can Be Your Friend", it's time to settle into something tangible in woodworking.  But still this topic may produce headaches because of all the combinations of dust collector fittings and sizes that often make a simple process become complicated.

Andrew commiserates.  Read about his frustrating experience and some solutions that he found in this month's Bevel Cut article.

Andrew welcomes your feedback.