Carpentry and Woodwork
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Two boys, Harry and Ralph, learn woodworking through conversation in this book by Edwin W. Foster. Harry is introduced to the coping saw, and a picture frame with an elliptical opening is sawed out and whittled to the line. The curve proves hard to smooth, so they design a second frame in straight lines, and Ralph draws a third. The younger boy asks to be taught the drawing instruments, and a chapter titled Mechanical Drawing follows.
Other passages cover a tabourette that calls for forty mortise and tenon joints, with advice to letter each part, mark the legs a b c d and work in pairs. Figures are numbered through the text, and there are short notes on trees and their wood, including the larch, which drops its needles in the fall.
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- Author
- Edwin W. Foster
- Pages
- 441
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering
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