The carpenter's new guide; a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery, treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, groins, niches, roofs, and domes, and containing a great variety of original designs. Also a full exemplification of the theory and practice of stair building, cornices, mouldings, and dressings of every description. Including also some observations and calculations on the strength of timber (1854)
^ Plate 68 … HAND-RAILING. 83 PLATE 68. To find the Moulds for executing a Rail with a Semicircle of Winders, Fig. 1. The falling mould as here drawn does not follow the line of noseings, but israised six inches, as is the practice with several hand-railers, in order that the rail should notapproach nearer to…
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