Identifier: woodworkingforbe00whee
Title: Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Wheeler, Charles G. (Charles Gardner), 1855-1946
Subjects: Carpentry Woodwork
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam’s sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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96 Wood-Working for Beginners For making pieces tapering, as well as eight-sided or rounding,you have only to modify this idea by planing off the corners in atapering way (Fig. 129). See Roundhig Sticks. Level and Plumb.—Before beginning work read carefullyMarking^ Rule^ Square^ Gat/ge, Sa7C, and Pla)ie^ in Part V. To make a plumb like Fig. 130, take a piece of straight woodCn. from 3 to 5 wide and 4 or 5 long with the edges straight^^^ and parallel. Gauge a line down the middle of the side,exactly parallel to the edges, and cut the notch shown atthe bottom. Make a saw-kerf at the upper end of theline and another beside it in which to catch the end of ^^
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Fig. 130. the line, or fasten the line around a nail. (See Plumb?) To make the level shown in Fig. 131, it is essential that thebottom board c dh^ straight on the lower edge. The two bracesa c and a d should be of the same length. The strut a bshould be nailed across at the middle of c ^and at right anglesto it. The essential thing is to have the line a b exactly at rightangles to c d, the object of the braces a c and a d being tostiffen the board c d, and to keep the lines a b and c d atright angles to each other. The plumb-line is hung and used asin the case just given, the board c d being used for horizontalwork. (See Level?) Cabinets, etc., for Tools and Supplies.—A tool-chest,though a very convenient (and in fact necessary) thing for a The Workshop 97 workman who is moving around from place to place or whoneeds a safe receptacle in which to lock his tools in a fac-tory, is not at all necessary in a private shop, nor half asconvenient as to have the tools where they can be morer
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