Wood Symphony founder Larisa Safaryan is the daughter of wood artist Nairi Safaryan, whose work was shown at Los Angeles’s Del Mano Gallery prior to the death of the founders; Larisa had worked with del Mano’s Raymond Leier on online exhibitions.

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The coffee maker is under 9 in. tall and has a 3-1/2-in. cup clearance. It will brew a 5-ounce cup in five minutes when powered by an 18-volt LXT battery. The unit has boil dry protection that automatically turns the coffee maker off if there is not enough water. With a 5.0 Ah battery installed, the coffee maker weighs 4.8 lbs.

Makita’s 18V LXT Cordless Coffee Maker (item DCM501Z) is currently available for pre-order and will sell for $99.99. Makita covers your purchase with a three-year warranty.

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Rockler recommends turning the handles 6 in. long from 1-1/2-in.-square blanks (not included), but you can make the handles any length or proportion you like. Bore a 21/64-in. hole for the tool shanks and then glue them into the handles with epoxy.

The new Gardening Tool Turning Kit (item 63703) is available now and sells for $49.97. Or, you can purchase each tool individually for $19.99.

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Tim Inman: So now you’re wanting to know my deepest trade secrets! Working as a professional furniture restorer since I was about 14 – a long, long time ago! — I have steamed apart joints many times. The photo above shows one of my favorite tools for doing it. Since there is usually no need to steam the whole item like it was cooking in a sauna or the jungle, I use a pretty commonly available wallpaper steamer as my steam source. Then, by drilling a sneaky little hole into the joint from the bottom inside where it is least likely to be seen, I inject steam into the joint until the glue gives up. Once that happens, disassemble the joint quickly – because as soon as the glue cools, it will reactivate and bond again. This happens sometimes while I am working!

As you can see, the “nozzle” is just a quick-connect air hose fitting. This is what I use most of the time. I did not polish up the tool for the photo op! This is real life. The handle is wrapped with a cloth because this gets really hot, and steam is a special kind of heat. Steam transfers heat really fast and it will burn your skin immediately. Be careful!

For really delicate work — and probably more often for lifting delicate little pieces of veneer or marquetry for repair — I mount a large gauge veterinary needle in place of the air fitting for a nozzle. This trick has saved me hours and hours of repair time. It has also saved hundreds of chairs from the ravages of “gross” disassembly and repair and the inevitable unwanted breakage and surface damage that goes with it. As a professional restorer, my work really boiled down to being able to work as though I was a thief in the night. I wanted nobody to know I had been there, nor did I want them to know how I got in and back out. This is one of my ways. But don’t tell your friends how you did it. This is a trade secret.

Chris Marshall: If you’re working with authentically old furniture, Kimberly, it was often assembled with hide glue. One of its virtues is that, with the application of steam, furniture joints can be dissembled pretty easily. I’ve also found that ordinary PVA (yellow or white) wood glue can be reactivated with heat. I haven’t tried steam (which might work as well), but a hot, dry household iron on wood veneer will melt PVA and enable you to lift off the veneer. Work fast, though, as Tim says. As soon as PVA starts to cool, it will bond again.

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“In response to your latest question: ‘Still we must take advantage of what nature has to offer — do any of you have extra storage?’ Both of my neighbors let me store excess wood in their patio fireplaces. I never run out of storage space! And, they never complain about noise and sawdust.” – Bob Hartig

“I’ll happily empty a container if you want to store a truckload of hardwood in Alaska! Considering that our local resource is limited to birch, black spruce and the occasional chunk of cottonwood (in desperation), I will take all you can send me. I don’t think you’d mind if I used a little bit in exchange for storage space … Yeah. Dream on. I need to figure out what I can make out of four-inch thick chunks of willow and alder. Not very inspiring, I’m afraid.” – Louise Heite

“I don’t have any more storage, but I might have a better idea on how torid the logs of bugs. When it warms up enough for the bugs to start moving again, find the nearest low-temp cold storage outfit (frozen food packing/storage/trucking company) near you. Get on someone’s good side, and take your logs into negative 45-degree temps and leave them overnight. It kills the bugs with the fast freeze (they don’t have time to acclimate to the freezing temp, and rupture.)” – Riley Grotts

“My neighbor and I were just lamenting the fact that all these good trees were turned into ash rather than salvaged. It finally boiled down to where could we store said lumber. He said I should clean out the garage. I suggested we buy the house next door. Neither are going to happen, however. Hope you find your solution to this problem. (That same neighbor does the auction/garage sale circuit and reports back that the ‘old ones’ are now passing on and their legacy is hundreds of board feet, milled and dried in their shops, going for pennies per board foot.” – Randy Gleason

“Our town has taken down an enormous oak that looks to be a good eight to 10 feet in diameter and 15 to 20 feet long. It’s just lying in the yard! If I could rent a band saw system that was big enough, then I would offer to remove it for them; of course, I would give the wood a good new (old) home in payment. I hear that a steel shipping container makes a great storage and drying container. Oh, to just be made of money!” – J. Eric Pennestri

“Funny thing about ‘extra space.’ Just as soon as you get some, it fills up, usually to overflowing. My space in my shop for wood storage filled up when I chanced on some walnut. Then I was given some cherry and cedar logs, crowding out my motorcycles in the garage. I better put this darn phone down and get back to finishing up that lumber rack.” – Lee Ohmart

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