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Title: Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Wheeler, Charles G. (Charles Gardner), 1855-1946
Subjects: Carpentry Woodwork
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Implements for Outdoor Sports 173 in the top of the pole, and get out a stout piece of hard wood, 3or 4 square and i^ or 2 long, with a hole in the middle to fitthe rod, and smaller holes near each end for fastening the ropesby a knot (Fig. 278). A washer can be put under the woodenbar, or the top of the pole may be slightly rounded. Other Apparatus.—There are, of course, other usefulforms of apparatus involving more or less woodwork, suchas hanging poles, fixed upright and slanting poles or bars,and various contrivances which you can readily arrangewithout more special instruction than has been given. Ladders are of course good, but it is usually as well for theamateur to buy these. A suggestion for a framework for hang-
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FiG. 279. ing rings, trapeze, poles, rope ladders, and the like, with fixedladders and horizontal bar, is given in Fig. 279. 174 Wood-Working for Beginners Do not make such framework too light. Fasten the joints withbolts rather than screws or nails, and suspend the hangingapparatus from eye-bolts passing through the timber and withwashers under the nuts. The dimensions for such frameworkmust depend upon the circumstances. The suggestions abouttlie construction of the other pieces of apparatus given above willassist you in designing and constructing something to suit thecircumstances. CHAPTER X FURNITURE SOME article of furniture is frequently one of the firstobjects upon which the beginner (particularly the ama-teur of mature years) tries his hand; and boys, as well astheir elders, sometimes confidently undertake pieces ofcabinet-work which would tax to the utmost the skill of anexperienced cabinet-maker, only to be discouraged by theunsatisfactory result. Do not be beguiled by the c

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