Laying and finishing hardwood floors . ther fine wood work. This toolie of such great variety and form as to deserve more thana passing notice, ranging from the common cabinet scrap-er to more complicated tools of every description. One of the common and universally used tools Preliminary Work. of this type is the scraper plane, in form resembling thesmooth plane and having a scraper blade fixed in the stockin lieu of the ordinary plane bit. Another widely usedtool is the Stanley No. 80, illustrated in Fig. 3 ofthe engravings. Both the scraper plane and the No. 80 are excellenttools in t
Laying and finishing hardwood floors . ther fine wood work. This toolie of such great variety and form as to deserve more thana passing notice, ranging from the common cabinet scrap-er to more complicated tools of every description. One of the common and universally used tools Preliminary Work. of this type is the scraper plane, in form resembling thesmooth plane and having a scraper blade fixed in the stockin lieu of the ordinary plane bit. Another widely usedtool is the Stanley No. 80, illustrated in Fig. 3 ofthe engravings. Both the scraper plane and the No. 80 are excellenttools in their place, but their place is not on the carpenter knows that floor surfaces are more orless irregular and wavy and that while these irregulari-ties are not so marked as to render it necessary to levelthe whole surface like a piece of plate glass, yet it isnecessary to smooth up the joints and thoroughly cleanthe whole surface. The peculiar character of the cuttingedge of the scraper (which will be studied in detail later. Fig. 4.—The Starrett Universal Scraper. on) is such as to require constant change of angle andposition in order to keep the tool cutting at its best with-out constant sharpening. The very strong talking pointof the tools referred to—, the plane surface next to thefloor serve as a guide to the tool and the rigid fasten-ing of the scraper in the stock—are the two things whichrender these tools and all others of their class ineffectivefor floor work. 8 Preliminary Work. True that these tools are made susceptible of adjust-ment as to position of the cutter by shifting thumbscrews, etc., but this takes too much time and experi-menting before the proper position is secured to be ofgreat value. That form of adjustment which is of mostvalue will be the one which can be made automatically bythe hands while the tool is in use. Another defect of the tools under consideration is thatthey push instead of pull and cannot be worked up closeto a corner
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