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 467
Fig. 628. Fig. 629. likely to be continually chipping or tearing and breaking offbelow the surface, instead of planing smoothly like a piece ofstraight-grained pine, leaving dents and rough hollows over thesurface. The natural tendency of the plane-iron is to split thewood in front of the iron in… … this the plane has a double iron. An iron or cap with a dulledge is screwed on to the face of the cutting-iron (Fig. 629)so as to help bend and break off the shavings before the split gets fairly started (Fig. 630),when the iron can cut it smoothlyoff. The thickness of the shav-ings is greatly…
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