Making the cut list

My wife adores the round jewelry box on the cover of the most recent issue (June/July 22). I noticed there was no materials list for this project or any other in the magazine. Older issues of Woodcraft Magazine, as well as other publications, include such a cut list. Are you not publishing them anymore?
Oscar Abreu
Indianapolis, IN

Senior Editor Ken Burton replies:
We stopped including materials lists several years ago, preferring to include bigger drawings and extra photos. Putting your own list together, gathering information from the comprehensive exploded view, may seem like extra work, but gives a better understanding of the project and its intricacies.

Some dimensions are key to a project, while others are relative. Some pieces need to be cut to fit, and our drawings reflect this with the designation CTF. For more information on developing your own cut list, see A Pro’s Guide to Cut Lists in Issue 75 (Feb/Mar 2017).

Selling oneself

I would like to make the three-drawer spinning jewelry box in the latest issue, but if I’m going through the trouble of making the router jigs, may I produce several for sale at craft fairs and the like?
Roger Anderson, via email

Chief Editor Chad McClung replies:
As a general rule, you’re more than welcome to build projects from Woodcraft Magazine for yourself or your loved ones – even if they pay you for your work. But if you plan to build multiples of any project as a business venture, you’ll need permission from the author. You wouldn’t want to profit from someone else’s design without consent. Part of our mission is to inspire. While Ken Burton’s jewelry box has inspired you to build, allow it to inspire you to design. Use our projects as a launchpad for designing your own work, growing yourself as a builder and a designer.

Working an angle

I tried making the Flatware Caddy from the last issue of your magazine, but I’m having a problem with the directions. The article says to make the twenty blank slats 2” wide, then bevel the edges as shown. I did that and the resulting oval is greater than 13 × 9”, while the base from the template is smaller. Further I notice in the photos that the author set up her twenty slats against a metal yard stick with clearance on the yard stick on each end. This means that the twenty slats together is less than 36”, that is less than 20 × 2”. What is the correct width of the slats?
Les Gagner
Minneapolis, MN

Associate Editor Sarah Marriage replies:
The information you are looking for is in the “Coopering Angle Diagram” on page 42. Your 2” wide blanks get trimmed to width when you rip the angles on each edge. The angles and the widths are both specified in that diagram. Specifically, staves A-E are 1 1/2” wide and stave F is 1 3/4” wide. I hope that the rest of the build goes well, and that you are caddying flatware soon!

Down the drain

In your article on Milk Paint (June/July 22), Kimberly Winkle says it can be washed down the drain. Most paints are classified as household hazardous waste because of their chemical contents—VOCs, lead, chromium, among others. Milk paint doesn’t contain those chemicals in either its powdered or liquid form. Even so, milk paint shouldn’t be washed down the drain, despite some manufacturer claims, because it is clay-based. It can, however, be thrown away with regular trash or even composted. But to be safe, check your local regulations.
Kendall Pickering
Buckeye, AZ