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Title: Modern cabinet work, furniture & fitments; an account of the theory & practice in the production of all kinds of cabinet work & furniture with chapters on the growth and progress of design and construction; illustrated by over 1000 practical workshop drawings, photographs & original designs
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Wells, Percy A Hooper, John, b. 1882
Subjects: Cabinetwork Furniture making
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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174 MODERN CABINETWORK, FURNITURE, AND FITMENTS • VIEW
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X VlE^- SHEWIHG • COM-STI^VJOTIOM . OF« COPBOfl^D pLflfN -ON -XX Sc^LE-- ;lll;l;lllll; I I =E 4FEET A Dressing Chest. CARCASE WORK *5 division is introduced to serve also as cupboard bottoms, these being dovetailhoused into the division and end ; the drawer runner is also shown, and the methodof connecting it to the rail. A circular glass frame with cross-banded frontis made by preparing a framing of whitewood (see f. 2, p. 173), the inside cutto the mirror size. This acts as a mould for building up the glass frame. Threestrips of thin pine are prepared with toothed faces. One piece is sprung intothe opening and forced against the wood. The butt joint should be cut slightlylong to allow the strip to press against the shape. This process is repeated withthe other strips, which should be warmed and glued before they are sprung into

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