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Michael Nathal

Michael Nathal

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I seem to remember an article in American Woodturner, but searching with obvious keywords has been unsuccessful. The topic was hollow forms, with the top entry hole made off-center. I know it involved hollowing through the bottom. I joined AAW in 2011 so believe it was published after then. Any help would be appreciated
 
what I did when I initially joined, I downloaded *EVERY SINGLE ISSUE* (including FUNdamentals issues) and saved them to my OneDrive. From there I can search them quite easily on Windows. (have to check the option to include file contents)
 
Look up John Jordan's articles. I learned hollowing through thr bottom from him but don't know if he ever wrote an article.
 
Michael Nathal said:
By the way, I find that the "Explore" search function is quite faulty. For example I searched with the following key words: Drozda, burl, figure, dye, dyes. None of these searches hit on "Enhance Burl Figure with Dye" by Cindy Drozda, in the Oct 2022 issue
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I've tried the "explore" function a few times. No success.es
Have you tried the AW index? I have greater success with that
 
I don't know the story, but the "explore" function is virtually useless, in my experience. The index, while not searchable beyond a manual alphabetical search, is the way to go. But Dave Hulett's suggestion is new to me.
 
Steven Forrest said:
I don't know the story, but the "explore" function is virtually useless, in my experience. The index, while not searchable beyond a manual alphabetical search, is the way to go. But Dave Hulett's suggestion is new to me.
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On any web page, if you can get enough content to load (i.e. on "infinite" scrollable pages, scroll and scroll until you load everything), you can hit CTRL+F to open the BROWSER search feature. This is relatively simple, but can be highly effective, as it searches for text in the contents of the page. If the site's search functionality does not work (which is quite common, sadly a lot of programmers do not know how to do a proper search that we programmers often call a "fuzzy" search, nor an even more effective type of search called an inverted index search...instead they do exact match searches which are 99.999% useless), then using the browser search functionality can often fill in the gap. The only issue with browser search, is it can only search through content that has actually been loaded. For infinite scrolled sites, you gotta scroll and scroll first to load everything. For any site that uses "classic paging" where you have page 1, 2, 3, etc. loaded individually, you have to repeat your browser search on each page.

In any case, it can be a lifesaver, if you know enough words, especially the more unique words, to find what you are looking for. Again, browser search is an "exact match" type search, so you DO need to know something about the thing you are looking for, and searching for the most unique word is the best approach. Once you get 1 or more results, you can use arrows to jump between them. If all else fails, a browser search can often find what you are looking for.
 
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