Elementary cabinetwork for manual training classes (1909)
Selden, Frank Henry. [from old catalog] · Chicago, New York [etc.] Rand, McNally & company · leaf 256
wer. For such purposethe nail should be considerably longer than thethickness of the combined pieces. For nailing twoI-inch thick pieces together, the nails should be 3inches long. After the point of the nail has passedthrough about § inch, it should be bent down, and then the headshould bedriven… … 250 ELEMENTARY CABINETWORK to cross the grain, and not be driven so tightly as tocrush the grains of wood. A still better way, if you have a pair ofstrong round-nosed pliers athand, is todrive the nailsentirely down,and then bendthe end on acurve with thepliers so thatwhen the headhammer used on…
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