Manual training - elementary woodwork

MANUAL TRAINING - ELEMENTARY WOODWORK

DESIGNED TO GIVE FUNDAMENTAL INSTRUCTION IN USE OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL TOOLS NEEDED IN CARPENTRY AND JOINERY

BY GEORGE B. KILBON
Principal of Manual Training, Springfield, Mass., and Author of "Knife Work in the Schoolroom"

LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS, 1893
 

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INTRODUCTION.

The title given to this book was chosen because of the purpose to present fundamental exercises in a simple form for the use of beginners. Effort has been made to detail operations minutely, hoping to be of service to novices, though well aware that no book can be a substitute for an efficient instructor. The arrangement is from the easy to the difficult by successive steps, and is designed to give boys of twelve years and upward primary command of the use of a set comprising the principal woodworking tools. The smaller planes and saws are chiefly used. Other tools are of standard size. Small pieces of wood are used, since elementary instruction can be better given thereby. The different kinds of nail driving, and the use of gauge and try square, are first taught on boards prepared by machinery. The ability to use each tool should be mastered before undertaking the study of another…


CONTENTS

Introduction
Equipment

LESSONS
I. Use of the hammer: Nail, driving
II. Use of the gauge
III. Measurement
IV. Use of the try square and the bevel
V. Explanation of the difference between slitting and cutting off saws
VI. Use of saws
VII. Surface planing
VIII. Edge and end planing
IX. Use of the bit and the brad awl
X. Shove planing
XI. To make a square prism and a cylinder
XII. Use of the chisel and the gouge
XIII. Use of the hand screw and the screw driver
XIV. To make a air of scales
XV. To make a beveled box or card receiver
XVI. Grinding tools


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