Modern cabinet work, furniture & fitments; an account of the theory & practice in the production of all kinds of cabinet work & furniture with chapters on the growth and progress of design and construction; illustrated by over 1000 practical workshop drawings, photographs & original designs (1922)
Wells, Percy A, Hooper, John, b. 1882 · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 446
hetree. Wood-boring beetles and wormsdestroy converted and made-up timber,both indoors and out, as well as living trees. The Goat Moth, Wood Wasp,and Pine Beetle are among the largest, whilst the smaller worms are wellknown as the furniture pests. An attack may be arrested by soaking the partin… … 2. Thunder Shake. n. Shrinkage and Warpage. Newly felled timber contains about 40 per cent, of water, which, in drying,is reduced to about 12 per cent., so that a considerable contraction in bulk andweight takes place during the drying or seasoning process. The direction of 33° MODERN CABINETWORK,…
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