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Title: The Coach-makers' illustrated hand-book
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Ware, I. D. (Isaac Delaney), 1839-1901
Subjects: Carriage and wagon making
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., I.D. Ware
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nd drawlines B and C. Nos. 1,2 and 3 show the height and length necessary for the foot-room.The sweep patterns, which have been given, will furnish all the curves required onthis draft. Any further items may be gathered from what has been already given. As full instructions have been given in the use of India ink, for outline and shading,we shall hereafter give only the outlines of different classes of work, and, at the closeof these exercises, give the full manner of applying the colors. SCALE DRAFTING. 35 It is a good plan for the body-builder to make a draft to the scale of everybody pos-sessiDg anything novel, preserving them for future reference. The habit once formed,the task will be a light and pleasant one. The time thus spent will bring its reward,if not in dollars, direct, it will come indirectly through the superior skill and fertilityof imagination gained by continued practice, which will not fail to show itself on your*)wn work, and be appreciated by the employer. o 00 In
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36 COACH-MAKERS ILLUSTRATED HAND-BOOK. In the three concluding diagrams we give the method we employ in the drafting,ground coloring and finishing a colored draft. We will aim to make ourselves under-stood in this the concluding and most interesting part of our instructions, and trustthat they who have followed us thus far will, at the close of these instructions, feelthat they have been amply repaid. This being the first standing-top introduced in this connection, we herewith presenta six-seat rockaway, with sharp lines. The body, to appear graceful, and reduce the rocker to an attractive size, the linesshould be carried out front and back on full quarters. In shop parlance, we would say,that the sharp lines, in connection with the coupe pillar, give too much belly, and there-fore does not produce the most pleasing exterior. In laying out for this draft first draw base line A; then take in your dividers 36 in-ches, and from the base line produce dotted line B. Next, draw dotted line

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