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The hardwood finisher : with rules and directions for finishing in natural colors and in antique, mahogany, cherry, birch, walnut, oak, ash, redwood, sycamore, pine, and all other domestic woods : finishing, filling, staining, varnishing, and polishing : also, miscellaneous rules for dyeing, gilding, and bronzing (1892)

New York : Industrial Publication Company · leaf 14

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I am well aware that the use of nails and screws is a necessity in wood finishing, but where the work is to be left natural color, or stained and polished, there should not be the slightest suspicion of a nail or screw head, and to meet this con¬ dition the skilled workman resorts to several… … Fig. 1.

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