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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 31

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T) -aining. is shown a round pine stick, six inches thick,with the bark on, just as it grows in the tree,and we will cut off some pieces to illustratewhat has been said. The stick is cut squareacross at the ends, and you can see the ringswhich mark how much the trunk grows eachyear. First I cut off… … CL 9 Ft?. 7. h, . till I get one four or five inches wide, bysplitting along the lines a b, a c. In thepiece a b d c thus cut off you can see theedges of the layers of fibers of which the ends Wood - Working. 17 were seen in the c}dindrical block, and, com-paring carefully the end of the thin…

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