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 . rmission of the Editor oj the Cabinet Maker.) CARCASE WORK 183 tenoned into the legs. The centre legs are made separately, and turned pinsabout f in. diameter fit into the apron piece. Details of the leg for this cabinetare shown on p. 116 in connection with a writing table of the same period. Theenlarged
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 . rmission of the Editor oj the Cabinet Maker.) CARCASE WORK 183 tenoned into the legs. The centre legs are made separately, and turned pinsabout f in. diameter fit into the apron piece. Details of the leg for this cabinetare shown on p. 116 in connection with a writing table of the same period. Theenlarged detail of turning, f. 2, on p. 180, is of the William and Mary type,executed in oak. When either kind of leg is used, the underframing is madeseparately, and the feet have turned pins fitting through the frame into the legabove. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the cornice moulding with cross-grainedfacings, a special feature of Queen Anne work. The end panel mouldings and thesurbase in this job are also cross-grained. Fig. 4 is a plan of the underframing. The illustration on this page shows a simple arrangement for a bureau flap,by which the supporting slider is withdrawn or pushed home as the flap is openedor closed. It can be applied to any bureau flap which is supported by the usual. Simple Arrangement for a Bureau Flap. slider, as seen in the designs on pp. 126 and 146. The movement is made ofthin plate brass I in. in width. Both ends are riveted to a short piece of the samematerial, and in such a way that the centres work true and easy. These piecesare again fixed into a flat plate which is prepared for screwing into the sliderand flap as shown. To obtain the length of the bar, pull out the slider to therequired distance, in this case about one-third of its whole length, take half thatdistance from the bottom edge of the flap to the centre of the bar, and then fromthat point to the back end of the slider is the length of the brass bar, allowingfor the plate. When this movem
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