Elementary Woodworking
Edwin W. Foster
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Description
Edwin Foster's Elementary Woodworking was published by Ginn in 1903, a school manual of the bench trades. A frontispiece shows the Grizzly Giant, a big tree in the Mariposa Grove, California. The contents divide the teaching in two: tools first, then wood, with directions plain enough for a beginner working alone or in class.
Part one takes the tools in groups: measuring and marking tools, the rule, try-square, framing square, and marking gauge. Cutting tools follow: saws, planes, and chisels, with the brace and bit. Then hammers, the screw-driver, sandpaper, and the laying out of a typical joint. Part two goes back to the forest: lumbering and milling, log jams and the log boom, rings and grain and the defects of wood. The broad-leaved trees follow, the oaks first, so the pupil learns the material as well as the tools.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Edwin W. Foster |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 100 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |