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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, also miscellaneous rules for filling, staining, varnishing, polishing, dyeing, gilding and bronzing : together with hints on the preparation of woodwork for the finisher (1908)

New York : Industrial Publication Co. · leaf 19

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dress up excessively a cross-grained patch in a stile or panel will most assuredly show through the finish and spoil the flatness of the work. The scraper consists of a thin and highly-tempered plate of steel measuring about 5 inches by 3 inches, or 4^- inches by 2|- inches, and slightly less than… … Fig. 1. radii, as at C D. These corners are often useful in working up hollows and mouldings generally. The “straight” edge, A B, it will be noted, is not quite straight throughout its whole length. Near the ends the edge is gradually rounded off to prevent the corner catching in the surface that…

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