The pattern maker's assistant : embracing lathe work, branch work, core work, sweep work, and practical gear construction : the preparation and use of tools : together with a large collection of useful and valuable tables (1878)
Rose, Joshua · New York : D. Van Nostrand · leaf 44
e to any great width, so that for widths above ten or eleven inches we must have recourse to the gage shown in Fig. 33. It is called the panel gage; its sliding piece may be seven inches long, and the stem two feet ; the rabbeting at A forms a steadying base, the part of the rod about the marking… … wedged in position. It is employed to cut thin strips of wood ; that is to say, of thicknesses up to about a quarter of an inch. The cutter point should be tempered to a dark straw color. In Fig. G is shown a gage in which one side has a fixed Fig. (?. point, and the other an adjustable one for…
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