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The Tenderizing Mallet (Dec/Jan 2023) is one of the best I’ve seen in years, and I was compelled to make one for each of my children. But cutting the grooves with a bandsaw is time-consuming, and the accuracy is subject to user skill.

The “Making a panel plan” section of the Louvered Interior Shutters story (Feb/Mar 2023) contained an error. The last paragraph should have read, “Determine the number of louvers by subtracting twice your desired rail width from the panel height and dividing by 2. Round to the nearest whole number to get your number of louvers. Then modify the width of the rails to make the opening in the panel frame equal to twice this whole number.” Sorry, math is hard.

What’s with all the stools lately? 

I enjoyed WoodSense (Oct/Nov 2022) on monkeypod. It brought back memories of my time in the Navy in 1970 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As a newly married couple, my wife and I, living on base, needed furniture, and the hobby shop on base sold monkeypod.

The San Diego Fine Woodworkers Association is accepting national and international entries for the 40th Annual Design in Wood Competition at the San Diego County Fair. The event will run from June 7 to July 4, 2023, with 23 categories including contemporary furniture, clocks, scrollsaw fretwork, veneering, and several carving and turning categories.

This torture device you have produced is not designed to be read by anyone over 20 years old.