The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 245
Fig. 6. will afford additional recreation from being carried on entirelyin the open air. In commencing to build this, I suggest a frame-work founda-tion, which is far better than ramming the four corner posts downin the ground. In that way the ends of some sink more thanothers—the bottoms often… … other at the angles, like Oxford frames. This is done by theoperation called by joiners halving —namely, cutting awayhalf of the thickness of each piece, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.When this is done, the one piece may be dropped on to tho other,and will be flush with it. A square hole is then to be…
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