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Description:Anyone who at one time or another has worked with wood - or has hankered to - will find this volume indispensable. The fundamentals it presents are important not only for the conventional applications of carpentry to home building, but also for the applications of carpentry to the many closely related trades such as boat building, millwrighting, insulating, composition floor laying, and dock, and bridge construction. Each of these occupations shares a common denominator with carpentry, since many of the tools, materials and methods are common to all.Fundamentals of Carpentry, Volume I: Tools, Materials, Practice is as broad in its scope as its title implies. For the layman it unfolds the fundamentals of carpentry in simple terms. For the apprentice who wants to become a skilled craftsman it offers clear cut instruction in one-two-three order. For the master carpenter it combines a diversity of coverage with detailed accuracy to provide a valuable reference work.For the reader of this book, each fundamental process in carpentry is presented in concise and simple terms. Although the book has been organized primarily for class or shop instruction, it is also an efficient self-learning tool, particularly adaptable for home-study purposes. To motivate the student or apprentice, each chapter begins with a set of "Questions This Chapter Will Answer," and ends with a set of review questions "Checking on Your Knowledge." Precise instructive illustrations are employed throughout.Primarily this volume aims to provide the reader with the basic knowledge that a good carpenter must have. It includes descriptive discussion of "Principal Woods, Their Uses, Grades, and Classifications," which furnishes the reader with a knowledge of lumber and its proper applications. Two important chapters, especially helpful to the apprentice and student, deal with "Wood Fastenings" (considerably expanded in the Third Edition) and "The Framing Square." Constructive and mechanical skill in carpentry depends to a large extent upon a knowledge of these fundamentals.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fundamentals of Carpentry, Volume I: Tools, Materials, Practice. To get started finding Fundamentals of Carpentry, Volume I: Tools, Materials, Practice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 383

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: American Technical Society

Release: 1964

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Description: Anyone who at one time or another has worked with wood - or has hankered to - will find this volume indispensable. The fundamentals it presents are important not only for the conventional applications of carpentry to home building, but also for the applications of carpentry to the many closely related trades such as boat building, millwrighting, insulating, composition floor laying, and dock, and bridge construction. Each of these occupations shares a common denominator with carpentry, since many of the tools, materials and methods are common to all.Fundamentals of Carpentry, Volume I: Tools, Materials, Practice is as broad in its scope as its title implies. For the layman it unfolds the fundamentals of carpentry in simple terms. For the apprentice who wants to become a skilled craftsman it offers clear cut instruction in one-two-three order. For the master carpenter it combines a diversity of coverage with detailed accuracy to provide a valuable reference work.For the reader of this book, each fundamental process in carpentry is presented in concise and simple terms. Although the book has been organized primarily for class or shop instruction, it is also an efficient self-learning tool, particularly adaptable for home-study purposes. To motivate the student or apprentice, each chapter begins with a set of "Questions This Chapter Will Answer," and ends with a set of review questions "Checking on Your Knowledge." Precise instructive illustrations are employed throughout.Primarily this volume aims to provide the reader with the basic knowledge that a good carpenter must have. It includes descriptive discussion of "Principal Woods, Their Uses, Grades, and Classifications," which furnishes the reader with a knowledge of lumber and its proper applications. Two important chapters, especially helpful to the apprentice and student, deal with "Wood Fastenings" (considerably expanded in the Third Edition) and "The Framing Square." Constructive and mechanical skill in carpentry depends to a large extent upon a knowledge of these fundamentals.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fundamentals of Carpentry, Volume I: Tools, Materials, Practice. To get started finding Fundamentals of Carpentry, Volume I: Tools, Materials, Practice, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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