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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eld from slipping by vise, clamp, or other expedient,and then keep the left hand on the chisel, which will steady andguide the tool, and, incidentally, prevent the hand from beingcut. See Parijig and Sha?pening. Circular-plane.—See Plane. Clamps.—Long clamps (cabinet-clamps), shown in the ac-companying illustrations, are extremely useful in making gluedjoints and in various clamping operations. Many, of differentlengths, are to be found in wood-working shops. Although muchwork can be accomplished without them, if you can afford a pairor more of mediumlength, or longer, theywill be very useful.Wooden clamps willanswer every purpose,although steel ones arebetter, but more ex-pensive. To clamp two o rmore flat pieces to-gether, as in making a glue-joint, or inclamping framework,as a door or picture-frame, lay the work across the horses, which should be so placedthat their tops will be as nearly level, or in the same plane, aspossible, and apply the clamps as shown in Fig. 488, always
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Fig. 488. 360 Wood-Working for Beginners l)utiing pieces of waste wood between the edges of the work andthe clamps. Place the clamps so that either the flat side of the baror the corner, as shown, will lie against the surface of the work,thus keeping it from bending towards the bar when the screw istigluened. The number of clamps to be used must depend onthe size of the work, but there is not usually much danger of anamateurs work being clamped too securely. If you have to glue a flexible strip, put a stiff piece outside be-tween it and the clamp to distribute the pressure. You will often find by sighting across the surface of the workas you tighten the clamps, particularly in the case of door-frames,picture-frames, and the like, that the surface is winding. Whenthis happens, move one or more corners of the work up or down,as the case may be, in the clamps, and thus take out the winding.A little experimenting will show how to do this. In the case offramed work, such as doors or pictur
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