Home Carpentry by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910226179
Publisher: RHE Media
Published: 2014-06-26T09:39:19+00:00

CHAPTER V

JOINING WOODWORK

Joining Woodwork – Having provided himself with tools, and having learnt in some measure how to handle them and how to use them, the next thing to which the amateur artisan must turn his attention is the consideration of the various methods employed in joining timber and pieces of wood together. But before attempting any of these operations, though they may be said to be operations that are performed every day in carpentry and joinery, it is absolutely necessary to be able to saw and plane wood in an efficient manner – to saw truly and straightly in the proper direction, and to plane up the surface and the edges of a piece of wood in a workmanlike manner.

Planing, Operation of – The operation of planing has been already dwelt on to some extent, but the importance of rendering perfectly true and square by this means the pieces of wood which are afterwards to be joined together can hardly be over estimated. One of the first, and perhaps the most frequent, of wood-working operations, is that of planing a piece of rough wood down to a certain size and thickness. Indeed, whatever joint the amateur wishes to make, he must first plane the different pieces to the right thickness and shape. Nothing but operations in rough carpentry, such as framing pieces of timber together, can be done without the aid of the plane; in joinery nothing whatever can be done without it. For this reason it will be an advantage to the amateur to give further details of the actual process.

For the sake of clearer and easier explanation, let us suppose that a piece of wood, square in shape, is wanted with sides of twelve inches each way, and one inch in thickness. The piece of wood which is to be worked into the above dimensions must be rather larger every way, and should be sawn off from the most convenient piece in the amateur’s possession.

Allusion has been made once or twice to the carpenter’s bench, but this will be described in the following chapter, and instructions given for making this, and also the stools or trestles that are so necessary when sawing timber or mortising. The uses of the parts of the bench, of which mention must necessarily be made in the following description of planing, will be readily understood. Having sawn off the piece of timber, lay it on the bench just as it is, in the rough, with one side bearing against the bench stop – generally a piece of wood fitted tightly to a square hole in the bench, and which can be depressed till it is level with the surface, or raised by a few blows from a hammer until it stands above it at a height sufficient for the purpose required. In this case it may be about ¾ in. above the surface of the bench, and therefore rather more than ¼ in. below the upper surface of the wood that is about to be planed.

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