Wood-working for Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs

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A Manual for Amateurs BY CHARLES G. WHEELER, B.S.
Know what thou canst work at and work at it like a Hercules.
Carlyle.
WITH OVER 700 ILLUSTRATIONS
G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1900
Copyright, 1899 by CHARLES G. WHEELER The Knickerbocker Press, New York
TO THE YOUTHFUL FOUNDERS OF TOTLET TOWN WITHOUT WHOSE INSPIRATION THIS BOOK WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN

The aim of this book is to suggest to amateurs of all ages many things which they can profitably make of wood, and to start them in the way to work successfully. It is hoped that, in the case of boys, it may show them pleasant and useful ways to work off some of their surplus energy, and at the same time contribute toward their harmonious all-round development.
It is not an attempt to teach the arts of architecture, carpentry, cabinet-making, or boat-building. Although not intended primarily to impart skill in the use of tools (something which can only be acquired from experience and observation and cannot be taught by any book), still no one can go through the processes indicated without gaining at least some slight degree of manual skill as well as a fund of practical information and experience.