Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 768
s the tangentto the circle, the position it would give is nearly retained, but we are no longer encumbered with thestock or guide. In turning-tools for soft woods, the elevation of the tool and the angle of its edge areeach of them less than in ordinary planes, and in those for the hard woods both… … These tools closely assimilate to the spokeshavc, which is the plane of the lowest pitch and keenestedge. On the contrary, the hardest woods may be turned with the above soft-wood tools, applied justas usual; but on the score of economy and general convenience, the edges are thickened to from 60…
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