. Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building; a general reference work ... Beams, Staircase Stair-Building . By Fred T. Hodgson and Morris Williams Page 263 Definition of Terms — Setting-Out Stairs — Use of Pitch-Board — Vs^ell-Hole —Trimming — Straight Flights — Stairs: Dog-Legged, Platform, Winding, Cir-cular, Elliptical, Bullnose Steps, Open-Newel, with Curved Turns, Geometrical — Cylinder — Kerfing — Strengthening Stairs — Handrailing — Wreaths — Pro-jection— Tangent System of Squaring Wreath Joints—Face-Mold — Bevels —Curves on Face-Mold — Risers The Steel Square . ... By Morris
. Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building; a general reference work ... Beams, Staircase Stair-Building . By Fred T. Hodgson and Morris Williams Page 263 Definition of Terms — Setting-Out Stairs — Use of Pitch-Board — Vs^ell-Hole —Trimming — Straight Flights — Stairs: Dog-Legged, Platform, Winding, Cir-cular, Elliptical, Bullnose Steps, Open-Newel, with Curved Turns, Geometrical — Cylinder — Kerfing — Strengthening Stairs — Handrailing — Wreaths — Pro-jection— Tangent System of Squaring Wreath Joints—Face-Mold — Bevels —Curves on Face-Mold — Risers The Steel Square . ... By Morris Williams Page 341 Face — Tongue — Blade — Back — Octagon Scale — Brace Rule — Board Measure — Finding Miters and Lengths of Sides of Polygons — Steel Square Applied toRoof Framing — Heel Cut of Common, Hip, and Valley Rafters — Jack Rafters — Roofs of Equal and Unequal Pitch. Index Page 387 * For page numbers, see foot of pages. t For professional standing of authors, see list of Authors and Collaborators atfront of CARPENTRY PART I INTRODUCTION The carpenter has always been a worker in wood and probablywill always be so, unless we are so foolish as to neglect the newerart of Forestry to such an extent that in the course of time we haveno wood wherein to work and with which to build and decorate ourhabitations. The building and the decoration of houses and otherstructures has always been the special contribution of the carpenterto the general welfare of the community, and this feature has dis-tinguished him from other woodworkers such as carriage builders,shipbuilders, coopers, and makers of various implements. Butwhereas the carpenter formerly did all the work connected with thebuilding or decoration of the structure, he now performs only a smallpart of it. At one time he was called upon to prepare the roughlumber for framing, erect the building, make the doors and windowstogether with their frames, and then make
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