The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours (1905)
Hall, A. Neely (Albert Neely), b. 1883 · Boston, Lee and Shepard · leaf 71
is necessary to get aperfectly straight and parallel line, A Marking-gauge should be used. This is nothing 44 PROFITABLE PASTIMES more than the above principles combined in a tool. Itconsists of a graduated shaft, or rule, with a small needleor spur in one end, which slides through a mortise madein… … Fig. 41. — Using the Marking-gauge. Fig. 41. Place the outer face of the head against thetried edge of your work, and then, pressing the spur intothe wood, move the gauge along the board, at the sametime keeping the face of the head firmly against theedge of the board. The gauge is much more…
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