Handbook in woodwork and carpentry

This series consists of five volumes, four of which are intended as textbooks for pupils in manual-training, industrial, trade, technical, or normal schools. The fifth book of the series, the "Handbook in Woodwork and Carpentry," is for the use of teachers and of normal students who expect to teach the subjects treated in the other four volumes.

Of the pupils' volumes, the first two, "Elements of Woodwork” and "Elements of Construction," are adapted to the needs of students in manual-training schools, or in any institution in which elementary woodwork is taught, whether as purely educational handwork, or as preparatory to a high, or trade, school course ii carpentry or vocational training.

The volumes "Constructive Carpentry" and "Inside Finishing" are planned with special reference to the students of technical, industrial, or trade schools, who have passed through the work of the first two volumes, or their equivalent. The subject treated are those which will be of greatest value" to both the prospective and the finished workman.

For the many teachers who are obliged to follow a require course, but who are allowed to introduce supplementary o optional models under certain conditions, and for others who have more liberty and are able to make such changes as the; see fit, this series will be found perfectly adaptable, regardless of the grades taught. To accomplish this, the material has been arranged by topics, which may be used by the teacher irrespective of the sequence, as each topic has to the greatest extent possible been treated independently.

Acknowledgment is due various educational and trade periodicals, and the publications of the United States Departments of Education and of Forestry, for the helpful suggestions that the author has gleaned from their pages.

CHARLES A. KING.



PREFACE TO HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS AND NORMAL SCHOOLS

THE matter contained in this volume is arranged with special reference to its value to the teacher of manual training, woodwork, or carpentry, and to the normal student preparing to teach these subjects. To the latter, it offers many suggestions for the discussion of equipment and courses, and of conditions that exist in the classroom. It gives also a preview of some of the obstacles met in leading pupils in the way of manual righteousness, and suggests methods of surmounting these obstacles.

The contents of Chapters I and II, although separated into manual training and carpentry, may be applied to the teaching of either subject or both. A few items mentioned in Chapter II, however, may be omitted in teaching a class in educational manual training, as they apply entirely to carpentry or joinery. It would be unwise, for example, to spend time upon the steel square, estimating, or extended practice in sawfiling, as these are subjects for the prospective workman.

While the Suggestive Courses are courses in woodwork, the hints and discussions may be easily adapted to the teaching of any branch of handwork, since classroom conditions vary no more in the different branches of manual training than in the different branches of academic studies.

The sketches of models are intended to be only suggestive as to dimensions and degree of difficulty, leaving it to the student to work out details and to make any changes that his taste may dictate.

In the courses are included some of tire standard models which have been in use in manual-training schools for years, but many of the models have been designed and worked out in the class- room in preparation for this particular work.