Descriptive catalogue of the woods commonly employed in this country for the mechanical and ornamental arts (1852)
London : Holtzapffel · leaf 39
26 PREPARING THE TURNERY- WOODS. gouge, and is used in many shaping operations in wood, as in the manufacture of shoe -lasts, clogs, pattens, and toys.* Fig. 8. … In the absence of the paring-knife or hatchet, the work is fixed in the vice, and rounded with a coarse rasp, but this is much less expeditious ; by some manufacturers the preparation both of the foreign and English woods is prosecuted still further, by cutting the material into smaller pieces,…
Wood -- Identification · Woodwork -- Great Britain
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