Descriptive catalogue of the woods commonly employed in this country for the mechanical and ornamental arts (1852)
London : Holtzapffel · leaf 62
er the pieces very gradually from the one atmosphere to the other, to expose them equally to the air at all parts, and to avoid the influence of the sun and hot dry air. The horizontal slice or block of the entire tree, is the most proper for the works of the lathe, as it is presented by nature the… … with the object, the fibres around the circumference are alike, and the contraction occurs without causing any sensible depar¬ ture from the circular form. Although thin transverse slices are necessarily iveak from the inconsiderable length of the fibres of which they are composed, (equal only in…
Wood -- Identification · Woodwork -- Great Britain
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