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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the outside of a box should bedone after it is permanently put together, allowing plentyof time, if glue is used in the joints, for it to dry beforedressing off the surfaces. The inside must, of course, besmoothed before putting together. The variety of forms in which boxes are made is too greatfor all to be specified, but the same general principles apply to nearly all forms ofbox-work. In the caseof chests or large boxes,you will often see themw^ith the sides and endspanelled, but this israther an elaborate form■ ^^ for the beginner to at- tempt and had best be avoided by the inexperiencedworker. A form which is not too hard for the amateur isshown, however, in Fig. 350, the sides and ends being fittedto grooves or rabbets cut in posts at each corner. The work of getting out the stock for boxes and makingthe joints can be done so quickly and accurately (and usuallycheaply) by a circular saw or other machine that much timeis saved, when making nice boxes, by having the parts sawed
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A Few Miscellaneous Operations 227 at a mill. The remarks made at the end of the introductionto Chapter X. (on Furniture), in regard to getting out yourwork, putting together, smoothing, and finishing, applyequally to making the better class of boxes and chests, andthe general details of the work do not differ from those ofthe articles shown in that chapter. See, also. Marking, Rule,Square, Saw, Plane, Nailing, Nail-set, Screws, Hinges, Locks,Scraper, Sandpaper, and Finishing, in Part V. Toy Boats.—A few suggestions about the woodwork ofthe hulls of toy boats may be useful to the beginner. Thedetails of rigging and discussion of the merits of the varioustypes and designs are matters which do not come within thescope of this book, and you can easily find information uponthese points. • Making your boats yourself is half the fun, of course,and capital practice with tools as well as a valuable intro-duction to the building of model yachts, which you mayundertake later, and to the gen
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