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 462
humb towards you and thefingers on the farther side, as shown in Fig. 624. This positionallows you to bear weight on the fore part of the plane whennecessary and to control the tool to the best advantage. Thisapplies to the old-fashioned wooden planes. If your plane is Tools and Operations 447… … Fig. 624. drawing the plane back tip it on the farther edge. The cap orbreak-iron can be set quite far back from the edge for roughwork, about one eighth inch, but much nearer for finer work. In these days when almost everything is planed by machinerywith greater or less smoothness, you will…
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