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Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original IllustrationsDownload Now...

by J S Zerbe (Author)

Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations
Text Source:Project Gutenberg
Text URL:http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20763
Language:en
Type:E-book
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Sales Rank: 2026804
ISBN: 1435312260
Page Count: 144
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These among many other subjects are touched upon:

 A typical work bench
 Hatchet
 Hammer
 Common saw
 Plane
 Jack plane bit
 a Fore plane bit
 a Firmer chisel
 Mortising chisel
 Trestle
 Miter box
 Incorrect saw setting
 a Correct saw setting
 Saw setting device
 Filing angle
 Rip saw
 Cross cut
 Filing clamp
 Grindstone
 Correct manner of holding tool
 Incorrect way of holding tool
 Gage
 Starting a saw
 Wrong sawing angle
 Correct sawing angle
 Thrust cut
 Chinese saw
 Moving angle for plane
 Holding gage
 Laying out table leg
 The first marking line
 Scribing mortise line
 The corner[Pg viii] mortises
 The side rail
 Scribing the tenons
 Cross scoring
 The tenon
 Finishing the tenon
 The tenon and mortise
 The drawer support
 Drawer cleats
 Assembled table frame
 The top
 The drawer
 Bevel joint
 Miter joint
 Picture frame joint
 Initial marks for dovetails
 End marks for dovetails
 Angles for dovetails
 Cutting out recesses for dovetails
 Tongues for dovetails
 Recess for dovetails
 Determining angles
 Marking degrees
 Angles from base lines
 Stepping off spaces
 Arcade
 Arch
 Buttress
 Chamfer
 Cooter
 Crenelated
 Crosses
 Curb roof
 Cupola
 Console
 Corbels
 Dormer
 Dowel
 Drips
 Detail
 Extrados
 Engrailed
 Facet
 Fret
 Frontal
 Frustrums
 Fylfat
 Gambrel
 Gargoyle
 Gudgeon
 Guilloche
 Half timbered
 Hammer beam
 Haunches
 Header
 Hip roof
 Hood molding
 Inclave
 Interlacing arch
 Invected
 Inverted arch
 Keystone
 King post
 Label
 Louver
 Lintel
 Lug
 M-roof
 Mansard roof
 Newel post
 Parquetry
 Peen, or pein
 Pendant
 Pentastyle
 Pedestal
 Pintle
 Portico
 Plate
 Queen post
 Apothegm
 Apsides, or apsis
 Chord
 Convolute
 Conic sections
 Conoid
 Cycloid
 Ellipsoid
 Epicycloid
 Evolute
 Focus
 Gnome
 Hyperbola
 Hypothenuse
 Incidence
 Isosceles triangle
 Parabola
 Parallelogram
 Pelecoid
 Polygons
 Pyramid
 Quadrant
 Quadrilaterale
 Rhomb
 Sector
 Segment
 Sinusoid
 Tangent
 Tetrahedron
 Vertex
 Volute
 Band (molding)
 Astragal (molding)
 Cavetto (molding)
 Ovolo (molding)
 Torus (molding)
 Round edge beading
 Beading and molding
 First square house plan
 First rectangular house plan
 Mission sofa frame

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