Design and Construction in Wood (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...to make a device like that shown in Fig. 77. On a piece X, say 2" or 3" wide and slightly longer than the long members of the frame, nail a strip about lyi" wide, Y%" from one edge. Into the internal angle formed by these pieces and near one end, drive a small nail or screw (.4 in Fig. 77) so that its head will project about %." This device when used is to be fastened on the bench between a bench-stop and the tail-vise-dog. Set the rabbet-plane so that the fence allows but Y2" of the cutter to cut, and set the depth gage so that the plane can cut yb" deep. The cutter should be adjusted so as to cut as in an ordinary plane. Along the right arris of the sole is a removeable spur which scores the wood so that the cutter will not tear out but cut out the shavings clean. Before beginning to plane see that this spur is sharp and that the right corner of the cutter is in line with the arris of the sole. Now cut a trial rabbet on a waste piece of wood, which has a straight edge. At the first stroke the spur will mark the width of the rabbet. Be careful to hold the plane flat, tilting it neither to the right nor to the left. The beginner in his effort to keep the fence close up to the edge is apt to tilt the plane to the right. This makes the spur cut in obliquely, as in Fig. 114, Handwork in Wood. Fiu-76. Black frame to match the crow. If the plane is not running-Fig. 77. Device for holding strips when rabbeting. true, stop planing and with a chisel trim out the recess clean and square and then proceed with the plane to the proper depth. After sufficient practice on waste pieces, plow the rabbets on the members of the frame, as in Pig. 78. Cut the 24" piece of stock in two, so as to make one long and one short...