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 38
16 HANDRAILING. the rise on tlie plank. This process may appear tedious, but in practice it gives very little trouble, while it insures perfect accuracy in the result. The annexed figures, a and B, show the plank with a pair of wreaths as applied to it when jointed up at the centre joint. Fig. a is… … This will be found to be Fij.B. a most expeditious and correct method of making the centre joint in a pair of wreaths, however large or small the well-
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