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Scientific American, Vol. 82, No. 22 (1900) (1900)

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es of afterward divided vertically into four equal parts—or variously colored woods, each measuring about a twen- “quartered ” as the operators say. Opposite segments tieth of an inch square. So accurately are these pieces are withdrawn and thoroughly mixed together. This of wood cut, even at these… … has been discovered the hue of Contains 382,600 pieces and over 100 different natural wood colors. The bucking-board having been whose wood is gray, and to supply cleaned and the sample spread over this deficiency birds’ eye maple and its surface, the operator, with a Hungarian ash are steeped for…

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