Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 561
tached to a rapidly rotating cylinder, for smoothing the exterior surface of piano cases. Theentire case of a grand piano is dressed at a single operation, the workmen simply guiding it in con-tact with the knife. In cutting veneers of ordinary wood in the same factory, huge logs of thedesired wood… … the latter in thin sheets some 12 ft. in length. The choicer grades of wood, especially rosewood, arecut into veneers by large circular saws which produce very fine work. The portions thus far described having been completed, the sounding-board is glued in, and the ironframe adjusted; this last is…
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