Descriptive catalogue of the woods commonly employed in this country for the mechanical and ornamental arts (1852)
London : Holtzapffel · leaf 67
swelling are as little restrained as possible, otherwise the pieces may split and warp with an irresistible force : and the principal reliance for permanence or standing, should be placed on those pieces, (or lines of the work,) cut out the lengthway of the plank, which are, as before explained,… … ably parallel and square, if originally so formed. A dove-tailed box consists of six such pieces, the four sides of which, A, B, C, D, fig. 19, are interlaced at the angles by the dove-tails, so that the flexible lines, as g, h, on B, are con¬ nected with, and strengthened by, the strong lines, as…
Wood -- Identification · Woodwork -- Great Britain
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