Our workshop, being a practical guide to the amateur in the art of carpentry and joinery .. by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Carpentry, Joinery
Publisher: New York, T. O'Kane
Published: 1873-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Carpentry and Joinery.

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for rough purposes, such as coopering, fencing, and general out-door works, is very suitable for driving into hard wood. Another kind termed jine-rose are used for pine and similar soft woods, and being thinner than the former sort is less liable to split the material. The head of each variety is large and spreading, and very good for holding the work down.

2. This nail, also distinguished as rose, has a flat or chisel point, which is less likely to split

the wood than one with a sharp extremity. The chisel edge is placed across the grain, and the danger of spoiling the work by even a slight tendency to split, is avoided, and a nail of this description generally holds more firmly than those with sharp points.

3. The clasp nail is largely used by house carpenters in deal and other soft woods. The name is derived from the peculiar formation of the H 2

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