PART XII.
USEFUL RULES AND TABLES.—Hints on the Construction of Centres.—Rules for Estimating.—Form of Estimate.—Items for Estimating.—Remarks on Fences.—Nails: sizes, weights, lengths and numbers.—Cornices, Proportions and Projections for Different Styles of Architecture; and Tall and Low Buildings, Verandas, Bay Windows and Porches.—Proportion of Base-boards, Dados, Wainscots, and Surbases.—Woods, Hard and Soft, their Preparation, and how to Finish.—Strength and Resistance of Timber of various kinds.—Rules, showing Weight and other qualities of Wood and Timber.—Stairs, Width of Treads and Risers; their Cost; how to Estimate on them, etc.—Inclinations of Roofs.—Contents of Boxes, Bins, and Barrels.—Arithmetical Signs.—Mensuration of Superficies.—Areas of Squares, Triangles, Circles, Regular and Irregular Polygons.—Properties of Circles.—Solid Bodies.—Gunter’s Chain.—Drawing and Drawing Instruments.—Coloring Drawings.—Coloring for Various Building Materials.—Drawing Papers.—Sizes of Drawing Papers.—Table of Board Measure.—Nautical Table.—Measure of Time.—Authorized Metric System.—Measures of Length.—Measures of Surfaces.—Measures of Capacity.—Weights.—American Weights and Measures.—Square Measure.—Cubic Measure.—Circular Measure.—Decimal Approximations.—Form of Building Contract.
HAND SAWS.
_THEIR USE, CARE AND ABUSE._
HOW TO SELECT, AND HOW TO FILE THEM.
Being a Complete Guide for Selecting, Using and Filing all kinds of Hand-Saws, Back-saws, Compass and Key-hole Saws, Web, Hack and Butcher’s Saws; showing the Shapes, Forms, Angles, Pitches and Sizes of Saw-Teeth suitable for all kinds of Saws, and for all kinds of Wood, Bone, Ivory and Metal; together with Hints and Suggestions on the Choice of Files, Saw-Sets, Filing Clamps, and other Matters pertaining to the Care and Management of all Classes of Hand and other Small Saws.
The work is intended more particularly for Operative Carpenters, Joiners, Cabinet-Makers, Carriage Builders, and Wood-Workers Generally, Amateurs or Professionals.
_ILLUSTRATED BY OVER SEVENTY-FIVE ENGRAVINGS._
By FRED. T. HODGSON,
AUTHOR OF “THE STEEL SQUARE AND ITS USES,” “THE BUILDER’S GUIDE AND ESTIMATOR’S PRICE BOOK,” “PRACTICAL CARPENTRY,” ETC., ETC.
Price $1.00.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.