Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 551
st be made of soft wood that willnot split readily. Two arms, C, are laid to-gether so that they overlap 10 and the wedgeis placed between them as shown in Fig. 3.Then they are securely nailed together, butdo not drive any nails near the center of the 926 FOR BOYS WHO DO THINGS [Aug., splice,… … arrows, and it shows how the arms CC aretilted by means of the wedge F. At the cen-ter of the splice, the arms and wedge arewhittled or planed to a flat surface, so as toreceive a block, G, which is nailed to them. This block is i thickand 3 square. Thedotted lines in Fig. 4show the corners of…
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