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A practical treatise on handrailing : showing new and simple methods for finding the pitch of the plank, drawing the moulds, bevelling, jointing-up, and squaring the wreath (1890)

Collings, George · London : Crosby Lockwood and Son · leaf 145

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sufiiciently dry, about two holes should be bored through, and one of the tangents should then be screwed to one side of the cylinder, the springing lines of the two being placed exactly opposite each other. Then the A^eneer should be gently bent round the cylinder, and the other tangent screwed to… … the curve. In glueing ^ ' ^ these pieces on to the veneer, they should.be started from one of the tangents on either side, and each piece should be long enough to allow of a screw or nail being driven through at each end

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