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Title: Teacher's handbook of Slöjd Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Salomon, Otto. [from old catalog] Subjects: Publisher: [n.p.] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: upper piece, throughto the under piece. Suitable pins are then driven intothese holes, and a stable foundation is thus providedfor the work of the plane. See Fig. 105. Compass;square;marking-point; bevel;cutting-gauge; knifetenon-saw;groove-saw;firmer chisel;old womanstooth-plane. 1. The groove is set out with compass, square, marking- point, bevel, and cutting-gauge, and a start is made forthe saw with the knife. 2. It is cut out with the tenon-saw or groove-saw, firmer- chisel, and old womans tooth-plane. 3. The clamp is set out with the cutting-gauge, and cut out with the knife.Care must be taken that the dove-tail fits accurately. SeeFig. 106. 160 Name of Exercise. Purpose and Description of Exercise. 58 Common dove-tailing. To corner joint by dove-tailing. Dove-tailing of this kind occurs in all sortsof carpentry and cabinet work. It isboth a strong and a neat method ofjointing, requiring neither nails norscrews to hold it together. It is mostcommonly used for boxes and drawers.

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 107. Fig. 107 shows the joint open; (a) the pins, (6) the socketsinto which the pins are fitted. 161 Tools required. Directions for Work. Cutting-gauge;compass;bevel;square;dove-tail saw;markino- o point; firmerchisel. lu the first place, the pieces of wood to be dove-tailed haveto be carefully planed to thickness and width, andsquared at the ends. Then the cutting-gauge has to beset to the thickness of the pieces planed, and gaugelines marked on both faces and edges of each piece, ata distance from the end of the wood corresponding toits thickness. Then the size and shape of the pins,Fig. 107 (a), have to be set out on the end of the woodwith compass, bevel, and square. The pins are cut outwith the dove-tail saw and firmer chisel, the saw cut-tuig with the grain of the wood, and the chisel acrossit. After the pins have been made they are held downon the piece of wood intended for the sockets. Fig. 107(5), in the position in which they have to be inserted,and their shapes accurat

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