Canadian wood products industries . - problems that confront themanufacturer of high-class interior woodwork fromtime to time. One that came to the attention of the writer andwas dealt with satisfactorily may be of interest to someof our readers. The problem was the making of apanelled elliptical arch as illustrated in Fig. 1. Now,there may he different methods of constructing such anarch, but the method described and illustrated in thisarticle will be found as simple and practical as first step is to take the width of the opening andthe height of the arch. Then construct the form assh
Canadian wood products industries . - problems that confront themanufacturer of high-class interior woodwork fromtime to time. One that came to the attention of the writer andwas dealt with satisfactorily may be of interest to someof our readers. The problem was the making of apanelled elliptical arch as illustrated in Fig. 1. Now,there may he different methods of constructing such anarch, but the method described and illustrated in thisarticle will be found as simple and practical as first step is to take the width of the opening andthe height of the arch. Then construct the form asshown in Fig. 2 with common dry lumber. For thesake of strength, at least four ribs should be made andnailed together and placed at each side, as shown inthe section drawing. Fig. 4, with cross pieces top and. Fig. 1.—Showing panelled arch in place. bottom. The bevelled strips should then be nailed tothe ribs and the nails set well in. The whole thingshould then be trued up to the desired ellipse. Inlaying out the width be very careful to allow for thethickness of the bevelled strips. The pieces whichform the false stiles are first steamed and bent aroundthe form. The false stiles shown in Fig. 4 are shownthicker than they would be in actual practice. Thefalse rails are then fitted in between the stiles. Beforeproceeding to bend the veneer the centre piece, whichis cross-grained, should be put in the heater and al-lowed to get fairly hot. The face veneer which formsthe panels should be glued on one side and along theedges on the other side, w here it glues on the back ofthe stiles. The other outside veneer is glued on oneside only. The three veneers are then placed together,the hot one in the centre, and a small nail put throughthem at each end to prevent slipping when the glue starts to
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