Our Workshop - Being A Practical Guide To The Amateur In The Art Of Carpentry And Joinery - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1408638703 ISBN 13: 9781408638705

Verlag: Read Books, 2008

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CONTENTS. PAGE CARPENTR A Y N D JOINERY.. . .. . ... l How TO USE T HE TOOL .. S . .. . ... 13 RENARKS O N THE SEASONIN Ah G TD CHOICE O F THE WOODS ... . .. 53 1 VARIOU M S E THOD O S F JOININ T G T MBER 66 O U R W O R K S H O P . CARPENTRY AND JOINERY. E are sorry to be obliged to admit, thatto enter into a scientific investibation of the mechanical principles on b which the art of Carpentry depends, would be worse than useless. By so doing, we should only be occupying valuable space, without imparting instruction, or affording pleasure to many of our readers. We should fail in the first, simply because arnatez w s o uld not peruse such unpalatable matter for so it would be considered by the e, very-day reader of light literature. The latter, ohpleasure-seeker, would ask why me did not tell him 11ow to make some ornamental or useful article, instead of delivering a dry lecture on the con positio at nd resol z tion of forces, the strengths of different forms of beams, and many other matters which are all-important tb the practical carpenter. In trut, h, there always has been, and we fear there always must be, a very wide distinction between the practical and the amateur mechanic. While the former is dependent on the correct scieGtific principles of his art, to enable him to , guard against the most disastrous consequences, the latter is quite satisfied with a mere superficial knowledge, sufficient to enable him to carry trifling matters t o a successful issue. Carpentry is one of the most interesting and useful branches of mechanical a, rt. It is also a cleanly and healthy employment. That carpentry is popular amongst boys, no one. will deny. Who ever saw a youngster who did not delight in the use of his pocket-knife, if no more convenient tool were at hand, to display his . co zstrztctive, and we fear but too often his destrzbctive, capabilities We hope that the advice we can give and the knowledge we shall endeavour to impart to our apprentices, in Every Boys Workshop, will reclaim all rniscllie7-ous fellows, and encourage all those who are of an ingenious and constructive turn of mind. Just reflect, if it be only for a moment, how gratifying it would be to have it Dont send for Chips, tlhe carpenter my son can do the job quite as well he is a capital joiner. Resides this, there are so many useful articles you would be able to make for the cost price of the material, and allowing a slight percentage on the original price of your tools. Good tools are necessarily expensive, nevertheless our apprentices must use none but the best for in the end they are the cheapest. Always remember the old and true saying, c A eood workman is known by his tools. a A good workman may do a tolerable job with indifferent tools, but a beginner should never attempt to use any but first-class implements, or he mill never become a first-class craftsman. If you use bad tools, and try to cast the blame of bad work on them, recollect that A bad workman always complains of his tools. A really clever mechanic cherishes his reputation far too highly to dlow his tools to lapse into an inefficient condition therefore, next to his character, the honest workman prides himself, and justly so, on the superior quality of his tools. We are mqll aware that our apprentices cannot all afford to hurchase good tools, to tthe extent they mill require them, at a moments notice and, indeed, it is questionable whether it mould be advantageous for them to do so at first under any circumstances, as increased bonfidence will be acquired by making a fern tools serve for all purposes to which they can effectively be applied. 13 2 Our TVo. kshop...

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• Verlag: Read Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1408638703
• ISBN 13: 9781408638705
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200