Explaining The Terms Used In The Text

architrave - au ornamental top moulding.

bevel, a - an oblique or rounded edge.

bevel, to - to take off the right-angled edge.

brads - small sharp nails, without heads, sometimes called "sprigs." buckling - a sharp bend, that cannot be taken out, and where the bend repeats itself when the saw is used.

carpenter's square - a square set at right angles(See page 11).

dove-tail - a joint shaped regularly, so that the mortise and tenonare of inverted wedge shape. (Seepage 55.) The projecting part is called the tenon or pin, the sunken portion the socket or mortise.

dove-tail saw - a saw with a short broad blade strengthened at the back, used for cutting tenons, and such like.

dowels - wooden pins used in joining. eyelet - a small metallic shape to sink into a wooden hollow of sameshape, as a keyhole.

face-planing - to plane smoothly a broad surface of wood.

halving - to cut two pieces of wood to half their thickness, so thatwhen they make a joint the two together are no thicker than one piece. This is sometimes called "housing." jamb - the upright sides of door-frames. keyhole saw - sometimes called the compass saw; it has a very narrow blade, and from 10 to 12 teeth per inch. It is used for cutting small holes like keyholes.

lugs - brass or iron plates attached to objects, and used for suspension flat to a wall.

mitreing - making a joint with two pieces of wood, each end of which is cut at an angle of 45°.

mortice, or mortise - a socket shaped to receive a tongue or tenon of wood.

mortised - a joint made by a mortice.

moulding - a uniform edge of regular shape made with a planewhose iron edge contains the pattern.

quartering - any length of wood with square ends measuring from 2" x 2" up to 6" x 6".

rebate - a hollow or sunken rectangular edge to a piece of wood, like the inner edge of a panel or picture-frame. (See page 129.)

rebate plane - a narrow plane for cutting rebates; in this tool the plane-iron is as broad as the sole.

scantling - a term applied to timber of given breadth and thickness.

scraper - a piece of thin steel usually with a straight edge, but it may have a curved edge. It is used to take down roughnesses of wood at finishing off, and should be used along and not across the fibres.

scriber - a marking-point of tapering steel something like a bradawl, to mark fine lines on work, to set measures.

shooting - -To plane the end of a piece of wood by means of the shooting-board.

stencilling - to transfer a pattern by means of a plate in which the pattern is already cut, so that in repeating it, it is an exact copy of the first. The plates in which the patterns are cut are called stencil-plates.

tenon - (see dove-tail).

tenon-saw - (see page 41).

trying-plane - the longest and most useful plane in use. It is employed for smoothing large surfaces, for long edges, and for " snooting."