Identifier: woodworkingforbe00whee (find matches)
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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oldcountry saw-mill has not occurred to them.Their tools appear to be roughly made and ofprimitive design, though evidently of thebest-tempered steel. The only substitute forthe carpenters bench is a plank on the floor,or on two horses; a square, firm, upright postis the nearest approach to a bench and vise,for to this beam a block of wood to be sawedinto pieces is firmly held (Fig. 3). A bigwooden wedge is bound firmly tothe post with a stout rope, and thisdriven down with vigorous blowstill it pinches the block which isto be cut into the desired propor-tions. In using many of the tools,the Japanese car-penter handles themquite differentlyfrom our workman;for instance, hedraws the planetowards him insteadof pushing it fromhim. The planesare very rude-looking implements. Their bodies, instead of beingthick blocks of wood, are quite wide and thin (Fig. 4, D, E),and the blades are inclined at a greater angle than the blade inour plane. In some planes, however, the blade stands vertical;
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V::J FIG. 3.—A JAPANESE CARPENTER S VISE.From Morses Japanese Homes. 14 Woocl-W^orking for Beginners this is used in lieu of the steel scrapers in giving wood a smoothfinish, and might be used with advantage by our carpenters as asubstitute for the piece of glass or thin plate of steel with whichthey usually scrape the surface of the wood. A huge plane isoften seen, five or six feet long. This plane, however, is fixedin an inclined position, upside down; that is, with the blade

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