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Manual training : first lessons in wood-working (1888)

Compton, Alfred G. (Alfred George), 1835-1913 · New York and Chicago, Ivison, Blakeman and company · leaf 104

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y movement lengthwise along thepiece, and the back of the chisel, like the soleof the plane, prevents its entering too deep.But when the grain is very irregular, so thatas the tool advances you find it working nowwith the grain and now against it in quicksuccession, it will be found best to work… … J3 edge, shown in plan at B, if the chisel movesfrom right to left, it will work against thegrain in going over the spaces b c, d e, f g, etc.,and with the grain over the spaces a b, c d,e f, etc. It will be found best, then, as it isnot practicable to reverse the direction of thework so often, to…

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