Wood-working for Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs

by Charles G. Wheeler

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INDEX

• Adze, Indian, [11]
• — Japanese, [15]
• Air-chambers, [318], [319] (footnote)
• — dried stock, [164]. See Seasoning.
• — drying, [36]-[40], [522]-[524]
• — pure, [277]-[279]
• — tanks, [318], [319] (footnote)
• Alkanet root, [498]
• Ammonia (for staining), [495], [497]
• Angle-blocks. See Corner-blocks, [365]
• Angles, determining, with bevel, [350]
• Angular bit-brace, [352]
• Animals, houses for, [126]-[140]
• Annual rings, [29]
• Anvil, [77], [344]
• Apparatus, athletic and gymnastic. See Gymnastic Apparatus and Implements for Outdoor Sports.
• Apple (wood), [512]
• Apron, [56]
• Arbours, [291]-[293]
• Arcs, describing circular, [364], [365]
• Arkansas stone, [434]
• Ash, [512]
• — sapwood, [42], [510]
• Auger-bit, [352]
• Awl, Japanese, [15]
• Awls, [344], [345]
• Axe, [345]

• Backbone, ice-boat, [334]
• Back-saw, [469]
• Backs for case work, [194]
• Balcony, [295], [297]
• Ball and block, [219]
• Balloon frame, [280]
• Bar, horizontal, [166]-[168], [173]
• Bars, parallel, [164]-[166]
• bassōōlăh, [11], [12]
• Basswood, [512]
• Bath-house, [293], [294]
• Batteau, [299]-[314]
• Battening, [282]
• Bayberry tallow, [378]
• Baywood. See Mahogany.
• Beading, [198], [345], [346]
• — -planes, [451]
• Bead-scraper, [345], [346]
• Beams. See Collar-beams, beams, etc.
• Beech, [512]
• Bench, filing-, [75]-[77]
• — finishing-, [77]
• — hook, [86]-[88]
• — stop, [71]-[75]
• — top, [62], [63], [74], [536]
• — vise, [65]-[71], [74], [101], [536]
• — work-, [57]-[65], [101], [536], [537]
• Bending wood, [40], [346]-[349]
• Bevel, [349], [350]
• Bevelling, [350], [351], [357]
• — edges of sides of boat, [305]
• Big trees, [520]
• Birch, [512], [513]
• — model (canoe), [325], [326]
• Bird-houses. See Houses for animals.
• Bird's-eye maple, [517]
• Bit-brace, [351], [352]
• — angular, [352]
• — maker, [22]
• — use of, [353]-[356] (Boring)
• — where to keep, [83]
• Bits, [352], [353]
• — arrangement, [83]
• — maker, [22]
• Bit-stock. See Bit-brace.
• Black birch, [512], [513]
• — bone-, [498]
• — cherry, [514]
• — ivory-, [498]
• Black, lamp-, [498]
• — walnut, [513]
• Blind dovetailing, [373]
• — nailing, [432]
• Block-form, [176], [240]
• — -plane, [449]
• Board, sprung, for pressure, [362]
• — -measure, [47], [48]
• Boarding, outside, [269]
• Boards, definition of, [46]
• — matched-, [46], [47]
• — or planks, laying exposed, [353]
• — splitting, [527]-[529]
• Boat-building, [298]-[343]
• — house-, [339]-[343]
• — -houses, [294]-[297]
• — ice-, [332]-[339]
• Boats, toy, hulls of, [227]-[237]
• — (windmill), [114], [115]
• Bob-sled, [156]-[163]
• Body plan, [229], [230] (footnote)
• Boiled oil, [437] (Painting)
• Bone-black, [498]
• Bookcase and lounge, [211]
• — dwarf, [196]
• — low, [196]
• — pinned ("knock-down"), [195]
• — wall, or hanging, [186], [187]
• — with cupboard, [197]
• — with desk, [198]-[200]
• Bookcases, [193]-[200]
• Book-rack, [183], [184]
• — -shelf, hanging, [185]
• Booths, play, [241]-[249]
• Boring, [353]-[356]
• — Japanese, [15]
• Bow-gun, [154]
• — -saw, [469], [470]
• Boxes, [219], [227]
• Box-making, [219]-[227]
• Boxwood, [513]
• Brace for bits. See Bit-brace.
• — -joint, [411]
• Braced frame, [280]
• Braces, corner, for house frames, [266]
• Brad-awl, [344], [345]
• — holes made by, [430]
• Brake for sleds, [160]-[163]
• British oak, [518]
• Broad-leaved trees, [511]
• Bruises and cuts, [86]
• Bruises in wood, to take out, [356]
• Brushes, [356]
• — care of, [440]
• Buck. See Vaulting-horse.
• "Built-up" stock, [409], [410], [530], [531]
• Bull-nosed-plane, [450]
• Burnisher for scraper, [487]
• Butternut, [513]
• Butt-joint, [408]
• Buttonwood. See Sycamore.
• Buying lumber, suggestions about, [36]-[45]. See also Seasoning.
• — tools, suggestions about, [15]-[22]

• Cabinet-clamps. See Clamps.
• — corner-, [190], [191]
• — for guns, fishing-rods, etc., [215], [216]
• — for tools and supplies, [96]-[101]
• — medicine, [191], [193]
• — music, [200], [201]
• — wall, or hanging, [186], [189], [190]
• — -work. See Furniture.
• Cabins, [241]-[259]
• Cages for animals, [126]-[140]
• Calcined plaster, [403]
• Calipers, [356]
• Camping-houses. See House-building for Beginners.
• Canoe, "birch" model, [325], [326]
• — canvas-covered, [317]-[328]
• — flat-bottomed, [311]-[317]
• — " " (canvas-covered), [313], [314]
• Canvas-covered canoe (flat-bottomed), [313], [314]
• — canoes, [317]-[328]
• Canvas, covering canoe with, [322], [323]
• — deck, [317]
• — painting, [323]
• Cap (plane-iron), [451], [452]
• Care of stock, [44]
• — of tools, [22], [23]
• Carlins, [325], [329]
• Carpentry, Japanese, [12]-[15]
• Carving-tools, [20], [357]
• — makers of, [22]
• Case, centre-board, [330], [331]
• — music, [200], [201]
• Casing for doors, [269]
• — for doors and windows, [272]
• Catalpa, [522]
• Caulking, [302], [303], [330]
• Cedar, [513], [514]
• Centre-bit, [352]
• — -board, [330], [331]
• — -board trunk, [330], [331]
• — -table, [206], [207]
• Chain, wooden, [218], [219]
• Chair, outdoor, [210]
• — -table, [212]-[214]
• Chalk, [416]
• — -line, [416]
• Chamfering, [350], [351], [357]
• Charring wood, [263], [264], [525]
• Checking of lumber, [31], [42], [526]
• Cherry, [514]
• Chestnut, [514]
• Chests, [219]-[227]
• Chimney. See Smoke-pipe.
• Chip (of plane), [453]
• Chisels, [357]-[359]
• — arrangement of, [83]
• — makers of, [22]
• — sharpening. See Sharpening.
• — use of, [358], [359], [421]-[423], [442]-[444]
• Chopping-block, [86]
• — wood. See Splitting Wood.
• Circles and arcs, describing, [364], [365]
• Circular-plane, [450]
• Clamping, [71], [359]-[363] (Clamps), [395], [461]
• Clamps, [71], [359]-[363], [395], [461]. See also Hand-screws.
• Clapboarding, [273], [274]
• Clapboards, [48], [274]
• Cleaner for furniture, etc., [386]
• Cleating, [53], [363], [364]
• Cleats. See Cleating.
• — for rowlocks, [301], [302], [306]
• Clinching nails, [431]
• Club-house, [296], [297]
• Coal-tar, [525]
• Coaming, [316], [320], [325], [331]
• Collar-beams, [287]
• Collection of specimens of wood, [44], [507], [508]
• Colour of lumber, [40]
• "Combination" articles (furniture), [198]-[200], [211]-[214]
• "Combination" planes, [451]
• Compartments (pigeon-holes), [200]
• — water-tight, [318], [319] (footnote)
• Compasses, [364], [365]. See also Scribing.
• Compass-plane. See Circular-plane.
• — -saw, [469], [470]
• Concealed nailing. See Blind- and Sliver-nailing, [432]
• Conifers, [511]
• Coop, [129]
• Cord, twisted, for pressure, [362]
• Corner-blocks, [365]
• — book-shelves and seat, [212]
• — -braces for house frame, [266]
• — -chisel, [358]
• — -posts, [265], [266]
• — -seat and shelves, [212]
• — -shelves or cabinets, [190], [191]
• "Cottage Row," [271]-[276]
• Cottages, simple summer, [271]-[290]
• Cottonwood, [514]
• Couch with bookcase, etc., [211]
• Countersink, [365], [478]
• Cracking of lumber, [31], [42], [526]
• Cracks and holes, to fill, [384], [403], [404]
• — flashing, [273]
• Creosote, [525]
• — -stains, [270], [525]
• Cricket, or footstool, [210]
• Crooked grain, [529], [530]
• Crossbow, [154]
• Cross-cutting-saw, [466], [467]
• — -grained stock, [40], [41], [529], [530]
• Cupboard. See Cabinet.
• Cup-shakes, [531]
• Curling of lumber, [32]-[34], [409], [410], [502], [526]-[531]
• Curves, sawing, [180]
• — trimming or paring, [443]
• Cut-nails, [433]
• — best for shingling, [270]
• Cuts and bruises, [86]
• Cutting the log, [31]-[35]
• — the tree. See Felling.
• Cutting-edges, [25]-[28]. See also Sharpening.
• — -pliers, [366]
• Cutwater, [309]-[311]
• Cypress, [514], [515]

• Daggers, wooden, [106], [107]
• Deal, [519], [521]
• Decay and preservation, [41], [524]-[526]
• Deck, [329]
• — canvas, [317]
• — for toy boats, [236]
• — timbers, [325], [329]
• Deliquescent stem, [508]
• Designing, [175]-[177], [239]-[241], [276], [534], [535]
• Desk and bookcase, [198]-[200]
• — -rack, [184], [185]
• Dimension stock, [45]
• Dividers. See Compasses.
• Dog-fish skin, [381]
• Dog-houses, [133]-[136]
• Dogwood, [522]
• Dolls' house, [121]-[125]
• Door, [247]
• —and window frames, space for, [266]
• — -casings, [269], [272]
• Doors and panels, [366]-[372]
• —and windows, sizes of, [276]
• — sliding, [132], [133]
• Double-bladed paddle, [328]
• — -ironed planes, [451]
• — -runner, [156]-[163]
• Dovetailing, [372], [373]
• Dowelling, [374]-[376]
• Dowel-plate, [376]
• Dowels, [374]
• Dragon's blood, [498]
• Drainage, [278], [279]
• Drawboring, [426]
• Drawer, or lap, dovetailing, [373]
• Drawers, [101], [376]-[378]
• Drawing nails, [504], [505]
• Drawings, working, [49], [50], [532]-[536]
• Draw-knife or draw-shave, [378], [379]
• — use of, [442]-[444]
• Draw-stroke, [26]-[28], [351], [378], [379], [443], [444], [456]
• Drill, primitive, [10]
• — -stock, [379]
• Drills, [379]
• Driving nails. See Nailing.
• Dry rot, [526]
• — situation, [277]
• Dryer, [438] (Painting)
• Drying lumber, methods of, [36]-[40], [523], [524]
• Duck's-bill-bit, [353]
• Dwarf bookcase, [196]

• Ebony, [48], [515]
• Edges, cutting, [25]-[28]. See also Sharpening.
• Elasticity, [40], [511]
• — loss of, [37], [524]
• Elder, [522]
• Elevations, [532]-[534]
• Elm, [515]
• — sapwood, [42], [510]
• End-grain, [529]
• — planing, [457]
• Essentials to successful work, [102]
• Estimating, [54], [55]
• Excurrent trunk, [508]
• Expansion and contraction, [30]-[33], [50]-[53], [225], [526]-[531]
• — bit, [352]

• Face (of plane), [445]
• — (of stock), [54]
• Facing edges of case work, [198]
• Farm school, [271]
• Felling and seasoning, [522]-[524]. See also Seasoning.
• Figured stock. See Grain of Wood.
• File-card, [381]
• Files, [379]-[381]
• — maker of, [22]
• Filing, [379]-[381]
• — -bench, [75]-[77]
• — saw-, [485]-[487] (Sharpening)
• Filler, wood, [385] (Finishing)
• Finishing, [182], [183], [381]-[386]
• — -bench, [77]
• Fin-keel type, [229]-[236]
• Fir. See Pine and Spruce.
• Firmer-chisel, [357], [359]
• Fishing-lodges. See House-building for Beginners.
• Fish-plates, [411]
• Flashing, [257], [258], [272], [273]
• Flatboat, [299]-[308]
• Flat-bottomed boats, [299]-[317]
• Floor-beams, [254], [255], [266], [267], [287], [288], [296]
• Flooring for canoe, [323]
• — rift-, [36]
• Floors, [254], [255], [266]-[268], [287], [288], [296]
• Flower-pot stands, [201], [202], [207]
• Footstool or cricket, [210]
• Fore-plane, [447], [448]
• Forests, preservation of, [509]
• Forms for bending. See Moulds.
• Foundation, [259], [260], [262]-[264], [279]
• Frame for buildings, [249], [250], [254], [265]-[269], [272], [279], [280], [286], [287], [296]. See also Houses for Animals.
• — balloon, [280]
• — braced and mortised, [280]
• — for boat. See Moulds and Boat-building for Beginners.
• Frames, door and window, sizes of, [276];
• spaces for, [266]
• — picture-, [216], [217]
• Framing-chisels, [358]
• Framing (doors and panels). See Doors and Panels.
• — (house). See Frame for Buildings.
• — -square, [495]
• French polishing, [385], [386]
• Frogs, turtles, lizards, etc., tank for, [139], [140]
• Front elevation, [532]
• Fungi, [41], [43], and Decay and Preservation, [524]-[526]
• Furniture, [175]-[217]
• — repairing, [460]-[462]

• Gain, [288] (Fig. 399)
• Gauge, [386]-[390]
• — for bevels and chamfers, [351]
• — makers, [22]
• Gauging. See Gauge.
• Georgia pine, [520]
• Giant swing, [172], [173]
• Gimlet, [390]
• — -bit, [353]
• Glass for scraper, [473], [474]
• — setting, [391]
• Glazing, [391]
• Glue. See Gluing.
• Glued-joints, [360] (footnote), [392], [393]
• (footnote). See also Gluing, Clamps,
• Hand-screws, and Repairing Furniture.
• — clamping, [359]-[363]
• — rubbing, [365] (Corner-blocks)
• Glue-pot, [396]
• Gluing, [391]-[396]. See also Clamps, Hand-screws, and Repairing Furniture.
• — old work. See Repairing Furniture.
• Glycerine, [434]
• Gouge, [396]-[398]
• — -bit, [353]
• Gouges, arrangement of, [83]
• — makers of, [22]
• Grain of wood, [30], [33]-[36], [40]
• — crooked or cross-grained, [35], [36], [40], [529], [530]
• Grinding. See Sharpening.
• Grindstone, [398]
• — use of, [480]-[482]
• Grooving, [185], [187], [398]
• Gum (wood), [522]
• Gun-cabinet, etc., [215], [216]
• Guns and pistols (wooden), [152]-[154]
• Gunwale strip, [306], [317], [320]
• Gymnastic apparatus, [163]-[174]