. The cabinet maker's guide, or, Rules and instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering, and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoiseshell, & metal : with observations on their management and application : including an appendix, containing several valuable tables. A E K\ D I. F B. J/ate ^ CABINIET MAKERS GUEDE. LINES 14, endravoured to illustrate them by reference tomechanical operations; such as ascertainingthe truth or correctness of the tools and workitself, and by the assistance of this kind ofknowledge, the workman need never be at aloss for a method of
. The cabinet maker's guide, or, Rules and instructions in the art of varnishing, dying, staining, japanning, polishing, lackering, and beautifying wood, ivory, tortoiseshell, & metal : with observations on their management and application : including an appendix, containing several valuable tables. A E K\ D I. F B. J/ate ^ CABINIET MAKERS GUEDE. LINES 14, endravoured to illustrate them by reference tomechanical operations; such as ascertainingthe truth or correctness of the tools and workitself, and by the assistance of this kind ofknowledge, the workman need never be at aloss for a method of setting out his work, or ofsubstituting, in the absence of tools particu-larly adapted to certain purposes, the compassesand ruler for finding bevel lines, or drawingparticular curves. I have here adopted thethe term Lines, as it carries with it not thatdifficulty which the title of geometrical pro-blems do, and because some of the examples,though depending on geometrical knowledge forthe proof of their accuracy, are more in thenature of mechanical operations, and, hence,easily understood by tne workman; our inten-tion being more to shew how the thing may bedone, than endeavouring to prove the truth orcorrectness of it by a scientific demonstration ;and as the term Lines is amongst workmen, mcommon use, to
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