A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 555
ak construction, and no matter howperfectly the work may be done, or how well it may bepainted, the saw-kerf marks will always show. For hard-wood moldings the method should never even be considered,and for curved work of whatever kind, solid molding shouldalways be used. A center, built to the… … Fig. 5ii. ah c for a center is composed of three pieces of li-inch plank;it is made concave on its inner edge, merely because it issometimes an advantage (when it can be done) to clutch thebent stuff and the rib with hand screws as shown. Blocks,as shown at d, extend the power of hand screws…
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