Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs (1900)
Wheeler, Charles G. (Charles Gardner), 1855-1946 · New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 41
ers more resistance in hardthan soft wood, the angle should be more obtuse or blunterfor the former than for the latter. Theoretically, therefore,the angle of the cutting edge, to obtain the greatest possibleadvantage, would need to be changed with every pieceof wood and every kind of cut, but… … Fig. 5. When you cut off a stout stick, as the branch of a tree,you do not try to force your knife straight across with one cut. You cut a smallnotch and then widenand deepen it by cut-ting first on one sideand then on the other(Fig. 5). The woodyields easily to thewedge on the side to-wards the…
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