PREFACE.
The character and object of this book is set forth on its title page. It is a manual designed principally for the practical assistance of students in elementary woodwork in the Lewis Institute.
The author has endeavored to present the subject in such a manner as to make simple the transition from the easier to the more difficult operations; the exercises have been selected after having had a thorough test covering a period of three years, and will be found practical in their application to the students in High and Technical Schools in elementary woodwork and turning.
Part one, the bench work, is intended to cover a period of eight weeks, two hours per day, and part two, wood turning, four weeks, two hours per day, thus making a course which will be found to touch the principal points in elementary work, at the same time giving practice in the uses of the tools most commonly used in carpentry, joinery and wood turning. Disston & Sons’ Handbook for Lumbermen has furnished many of the facts presented under “Care of Saws.”
It has been the author’s aim in this course to give just enough instruction in the work so that the student might be led to study out the problems for himself; by this means he is able to study the course of work that follows the second part of this book, i. e., Pattern Making.
A cursory perusal of the work will disclose many features which the author feels sure will commend themselves to instructors and others interested in this department of school work, and with the hope that these pages may prove a valuable aid to students and teachers alike, this work is presented to the public.
George A. Ross.
Lewis Institute, Chicago, 1901.