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 463
possible. The s7)iootJiing-plaue is used, as its name indicates, for the finalsmoothing of the surface, so far as it can be done with a plane.It is from five to ten inches long. It is an invaluable plane to the amateur, and the beginner canget along very well for a great deal of work with no other,… … Fig. 626. your work smooth, but it is hard to make it straight and level ortrue with such a tool, because, being short, it will follow thelarger irregularities of the surface and will only plane off thesmaller inequalities. It will go up and down over the hills and Tools and Operations 449 valleys…
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