GGs, Recognition of one's achievements and contributions, even if
belated and second-hand,is always welcome. This applies to Roy
Underhill's sidebar note in his article in the latest(April '12) issue
of PopWood magazine, pointing to a piece by Galoot Stephen
Shepherdpublished in 2001 detailing how to make a mallet with not one
but two 'rising dovetail' jointsthat looks to be impossible in finished
form. Stephen's original article is here:
<http://www.fullchisel.com/woodworker.htm> Both Stephen and Roy suggest
the design is old, and was nearly lost. Roy goes into alittle of his
usual banter on the question of the history, referencing that famous
woodworker Abraham Lincoln and an unnamed 'Victorian-era woodworking
magazine,' and let's us know that he saw it 'decades ago' (i.e., pre-
Stephen's 2001 piece linked above) in another unnamed article. There are
some differences in technique and procedure between Stephenand Roy, but
with similar results. Maybe we could get Stephen to enlighten us a
little further on where or how he came upwith his version. Tom Holloway

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