The carpenter's new guide: being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery. Treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, brick and plaster groins ... with a great variety of designs for roofs, trussed girders ... with many other things entirely new: the whole founded on true geometrical principles; the theory and practice well explained and fully exemplified on eighty-four copper-plates; including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber (1830)
Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844 · Philadelphia, J. Grigg · leaf 260
if the treads are ever so crooked, andthe risers out of an upright. In Jig. *d, is shown a bevel, -made to the rake of the skirting, and the other perpendicularto the stair, and a sliding piece to be applied to the perpendicular side of the bevel with ahooked point of iron or steel, to stand… … 4 STAIR-CASING. 109 How to Jit down the Skirting. Lay the skirting over the top of the steps, and let a very fine notch be made on the frontedge of your sliding piece, to the height of a step, or rather higher; then apply the point oftlie sliding piece to the internal corner of a step, and prick…
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