Beginning Woodwork At Home And In School | by Clinton S. Van Deusen

This book is intended as a definite statement of steps that may be followed by a beginner in learning the fundamental principles of woodworking.

Title	Beginning Woodwork At Home And In School
Author	Clinton Sheldon Van Deusen
Publisher	The Manual Arts Press
Year	1907
Copyright	1907, The Manual Arts Press
Amazon	Beginning Woodwork At Home And In School

by Clinton Sheldon Van Deusen, M. E., Instructor in Manual Arts, Bradley Polytechnic Institute.

Illustrations by Edwin Victor Lawrence, Instructor in Drawing, University of Illinois.

Foreword: This book is intended as a definite statement of steps that may be followed by a beginner in learning the fundamental principles of woodworking. Instead of giving a general discussion of woodworking p...

Chapter I. Introduction: Shop Before beginning the work outlined in this book it will be necessary to have what we will call a shop in which to do the work. This may be quite an elaborate building, but necessity demands on...

Chapter II. Laying Out And Sawing: This first problem is to give experience in good methods of laying out work, sawing, boring and the use of the dowel plate. Game Board The material required is a piece of tulip wood 8 long, pla...

Laying Out And Sawing. Continued: (j) Through the three middle points thus marked, draw knife lines across the working face (as in g) and through the two end points thus marked, draw knife line square around the piece (as in h). The t...

Chapter III. Planing: On completing this chapter one should have acquired a free motion when using the jack and block planes; should have become skilled in taking off a shaving where desired; and should have an appreciatio...

Planing. Part 2: (j) Place the bench-hook on the bench with its smaller block clamped in the vise and its larger block on top. Place the piece on the bench-hook with the joint side against the block. Set the block-pla...

Crafting a Bread Cutting Board: The material required is a piece of butternut 13x5 1/2x 7/8 The tools to be used for the first time are the winding sticks. Bread Cutting Board. (a) Select the surface desired for the wor...

Chapter V. Curve Sawing And Spokeshaving: In this chapter the method followed in simple modeling, as employed in producing a piece of curved outline, is explained. Coat Hanger The material required is a piece of redwood l6x2 3/4 x 13/...

Chapter VI. Chiseling And Joining: The work of this chapter is given as a means of acquiring a knowledge of the fundamental principles of laying out and cutting a joint, and it will also emphasize the accuracy necessary in this class o...

Chapter VII. Chiseling And Planing: In this chapter, work of a different kind is done with the chisel and, in addition, good experience is gained in planing a C5'linder and in fastening pieces together. Towel Roller The material r...

Chiseling And Planing. Continued: (k) Clamp the piece in the vise with the working face up and the end on which the gage lines were made at the right and a little above the top of the bench. With the 5/16 chisel remove the wood bound...

Chapter VIII. Furniture Making-Keyed Construction: The purpose of this chapter is to make clear the manner in which the principles already learned may be applied in working out simple problems in furniture construction. In this class of work it is nec...

Furniture Making-Keyed Construction. Part 2: (e) Remove the pieces from the vise, and with knife and try-square, draw three lines across the working face of each piece even with these knife marks. Place the try-square on each of the pieces, with...

Furniture Making-Keyed Construction. Part 3: (o) A 1/4 chamfer should now be laid out on the edges that are to be vertical at the ends of the tenons. Use pencil and try-square to lay them out, and then cut them with the chisel as in Fig. 63. ...

Chapter IX. Furniture Making - Closed Mortise-And-Tenon Construction: In this chapter the application of the fundamental principles to furniture making is continued, and a good working knowledge of construction involving the closed mortise-and-tenon joint should be gain...

Furniture Making - Closed Mortise-And-Tenon Construction. Continued: (h) Plane the two longer rails to length (34), width (35) and thickness (10) and the two shorter rails to length (36), width (35) and thickness (10). (i) Clamp the two longer rails in the vise as i...

Chapter X. Application Of Principles: The work outlined in the preceeding chapter has given experience in only a few of the problems a woodworker will have to meet, but the work has been presented systematically and it is believed that mo...

Appendix. Lists Of Tools, Materials And Dimensions, Detailed Description Of Planes, And Directions: Dimensions The dimensions given in the list below are those which should be used in place of the corresponding reference numbers in the text. All dimensions might have been omitted both from the te...

Planes: Planes are the most complicated of the ordinary woodworking tools and a more detailed explanation than was considered desirable in the text will now be given. Jack-plane To take this plane apart...

List Of Tools: Good (H or No. 3) lead pencil (Fig. 30). Marking Gage (Fig. 8). Sloyd knife (Fig. 11). Try-square (Fig. 10). Bevel-edge rule (Fig. 14). Bench hook (Fig. 15). Back-saw (Fig. 16). B...