Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building; a general reference work .. (1912)
American School (Lansing, Ill.) · Chicago, American school of correspondence · leaf 32
d be no warping, but wood is.made up of a large number of fibers, the walls of which are of dif-ferent thicknesses in different parts of the tree or log, so that indrying one part shrinks much more than another. Since the woodfibers are in close contact with each other and interlaced, thusmaking… … 22 CARPENTRY 13
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