. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. ork starts with putting on the webbing or bands on the bottom of the seat framing, and this should be done in a very firm way. For a chair seat, three strips from front to back rail and three interlaced through these across the width of the chair will be sufficient to make a firm support for the springs. Fold the ends of the webbing sufficient to have the tacks hold and then stretch across to the other side by hand or by means of a steel stretching tool, folding and tacking and cutting off the webbing to start another strip.
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. ork starts with putting on the webbing or bands on the bottom of the seat framing, and this should be done in a very firm way. For a chair seat, three strips from front to back rail and three interlaced through these across the width of the chair will be sufficient to make a firm support for the springs. Fold the ends of the webbing sufficient to have the tacks hold and then stretch across to the other side by hand or by means of a steel stretching tool, folding and tacking and cutting off the webbing to start another strip. For this use lo-ounce tacks. Five springs of the shape shown in Fig. 2q5 will be sufficient for the usual size of chair seats. This spring is 3^4 inches high, and is of io>^-gauge wire. The position of the springs on the webbing should be about i inch from each corner, with one placed in the center. They are then held in place by stitching through the webbing sufficient to hold them to one position, and for this use an upholstering curved needle and good Fig, 295.—Shape of theSprings. 297 298 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN The tops of the springs are now held in the same relative po-sition, and for this, use heavy cord, securing the end to the topof the seat rail with a matting tack or staple driven inside of ahard knot; then engage the outside wire of the spring with a loopknot drawn so that it does not compress the spring too here loop across the spring and then to the opposite springand down on to the rail, making a hard knot and holding thecord down snug with a staple. In this manner do the othersprings and then criss-cross, so that they are all bridged together. Cover this network with burlap or muslin, tacking the firstedge sufficiently folded to have the tacks hold on to the edge orthe back seat rail, and stretch forward and tack down on frontrail, then on side rail, folding the edges as you tack. Upon thisdistribute in an even manner about 2 pounds
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