By Roy Underhill
With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill maintains to illustrate "how firstly a tree and an awl and make something after one other till you have got a home and every little thing in it." This quantity good points chapters on helves and handles, saws, the hunt for the whetstone quarry, crow chasers and turkey calls, hurdles, whimmy diddles, snaplines and staining gauges, candle stands, planes, window sash, riven shingles, and pit sawing. the ultimate bankruptcy deals a glimpse of conventional woodworking suggestions nonetheless utilized by the Colonial Williamsburg housewrights. greater than 260 images supplement the textual content.
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If the blade of such a bow saw could not be turned, it could cut only a few inches before the stretcher would hit the end of the board being ripped. 4 4 THE WOODWRIGHT'S COMPANION Turnbuckle on the left, toggle on the right. (Below) Morticing the stretcher. Two turning saws and a crosscut. It's an easy arrangement to make. You bore holes through the bottoms of the two uprights and fashion two knobs with slotted shafts to fit through them. The end of the blade is held in the slot by an iron pin that passes through both the shaft and the hole in the blade.
Honey locust wood is quite heavy, hard, strong, stiff, and difficult to work. The wood is very attractive and interesting but little used, since commercial quantities are not available. Locally it is used for wagon hubs and fencing. It is moderately resistant to decay, but not to the extent that black locust is. Kentucky coffee tree Gymnocladus dioicus A member of the pea family, this native of the central states was popular at one time as an ornamental and has spread eastward beyond its original range.
Holly trees are very tolerant of shade and are a common component of the understory of mature southern forests. The wood is tough, but light and weak. It is close grained and ivory white and is used for furniture inlay, engravings, scientific instrument scales, and, when died black to imitate ebony, piano keys. It works well on a lathe and makes "good Trenchers and other Turnery-ware" (Lawson). Fir needles are flat with two light-colored bands on their undersides. American holly can reach 100 feet high and 4 feet in diameter.