Carpentry For Boys In A Simple Language Including Chapters On D

KNOWLEDGE OF TOOLS.--A knowledge of tools and their uses is the first and most important requirement. The saw, the plane, the hatchet and the hammer are well known to all boys;...

CARE OF TOOLS.--Dull tools indicate the character of the workman. In an experience of over forty years, I have never known a good workman to keep poorly sharpened tools. While i...

Observation may form part of each boy's lesson, but when it comes to the handling of tools, practice becomes the only available means of making a workman. Fifty years of observa...

FUNDAMENTALS OF DESIGNING.--A great deal of the pleasure in making articles consists in creative work. This means, not that you shall design some entirely new article, but that...

CONCRETE EXAMPLES OF WORK.--A concrete example of doing any work is more valuable than an abstract statement. For this purpose I shall direct the building of a common table with...

THE SQUARE.--The square is, probably, the oldest of all tools, and that, together with the compass, or dividers, with which the square is always associated, has constituted the...

THE RIGHT NAME FOR EVERYTHING.--Always make it a point to apply the right term to each article or portion of a structure. Your explanation, to those who do know the proper techn...

A knowledge of drawing, at least so far as the fundamentals are concerned, is of great service to the beginner. All work, after being conceived in the brain, should be transferr...

MOLDINGS.--The use of moldings was early resorted to by the nations of antiquity, and we marvel to-day at many of the beautiful designs which the Ph[oe]necians, the Greeks and t...

In the chapter on How Work is Laid Out, an example was given of the particular manner pursued in laying out mortises and tenons, and also dovetailed work. I deem it advisable to...

House building is the carpenter's craft; cabinet-making the joiner's trade, yet both are so intimately associated, that it is difficult to draw a line. The same tools, the same...

BRIDGES.--Bridge building is not, strictly, a part of the carpenter's education at the present day, because most structures of this kind are now built of steel; but there are ce...

In this place consideration will be given to some of the features relating to the materials to be employed, particularly with reference to the manner in which they can be worked...

ADVANTAGES OF WOOD TURNING.--This is not, strictly, in the carpenter's domain; but a knowledge of its use will be of great service in the trade, and particularly in cabinet maki...

As this subject properly belongs to the painter and decorator, it is not necessary to go into details concerning the methods used to finish off your work. As you may not be able...

A carpenter has a trade; the architect a profession. It is not to be assumed that one vocation is more honorable than the other. A _profession_ is defined as a calling, or occup...

As stated in the Introductory, the purpose of this book is to show _how to do the things_, and not to draw a picture in order to write a description of it. Merely in the line of...

In the foregoing chapters we have referred the reader to the simple tools, but it is thought desirable to add to the information thus given, an outline of numerous special tools...

The chapter on Bridge Building gives some suggestions as to form of trusses, the particular types there shown being principally for wide spans. Such trusses were made for one pu...

In uniting two or more elements, some particular type of joint is necessary. In framing timbers, in making braces, in roof construction and supports, in floor beams, and in nume...

In the mechanical arts, workers are as likely to learn from the mistakes committed as through correct information imparted. Advice, therefore, might be considered superfluous. B...