The New York coach-maker's magazine . kory worked up intospokes for carriages, and into axe helves, pick handles,&c, in many localities, and none of that timber that wascut during these months has ever been known to powder-post. But much that was cut at some other seasons hasbecome quite worthless, except for firewood, after it hadbeen finished up. Let sugar maple and white beach be cut in the monthsof May and June in our latitude, and be hewed or sawedinto timber for a barn or other out-building, and, in mostinstances, insects will work, boring it full of innumerablesmall holes. When such tim
The New York coach-maker's magazine . kory worked up intospokes for carriages, and into axe helves, pick handles,&c, in many localities, and none of that timber that wascut during these months has ever been known to powder-post. But much that was cut at some other seasons hasbecome quite worthless, except for firewood, after it hadbeen finished up. Let sugar maple and white beach be cut in the monthsof May and June in our latitude, and be hewed or sawedinto timber for a barn or other out-building, and, in mostinstances, insects will work, boring it full of innumerablesmall holes. When such timber is inclosed in a house,where insects cannot have access to it, of course this willnot occur. But I have seen beams of houses reduced toa worthless shell by insects, when the trees of which theywere made were cut down in the spring or fore part ofsummer. When timber would be secured so as to retainall its toughness and solidity, as well as its durability, itshould be cut in late autumn. THE NEW YORK COACH-MAKERS MAGAZINE June,. LANDAU, WITH CANT-BOARD.—HALF-INCH SCALE. GEOMETRY OF CARRIAGE ARCHITECTURE. BY A PRACTICAL COACH-MAKER. BODY CONSTRUCTION—PART EIGHTEENTH. Commence by finding the extreme length from 1 to 2across the body; next lay down the cant-rail line 3 to 4equal distances from the outside of the board, as thesebodies are best made square, giving equal room on bothseats ; then take the width of the doors as shown 5 to 6. Having determined the amount of turn-under of thestanding-pillars, for which it is necessary to draw an upand down cant as shown at 7, next draw the lines 8 to 9the turn-under at the short bottom sides, and 10 to 11the turn-under at the bottom of the pillar, after whichdraw the rocker lines 12 and 13. Now draw a squareline from the outside of the sweep for the hinge pillar,being better for concealed hinges, likewise making thedoors open farther back, and then strike the sheet line asbefore described, and square from outside of board thebacks
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