Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs . Fig. 15. Fic. 16. outside board shrinks least in thickness and most in width,and all, except the middle one, shrink differently on oneside from the other. They become conxxx toward the pith,or heart, and concave toward the outside. Different kiiids Wood 33. Fig. 17. of wood shrink and warp to different degrees. You canlearn something about these matters by examining the stockin any lumber-yard. Now to come to the practical application of our briefstudy of the log and thesawing process: if youmerely wish to get the mostthat you can from a log i
Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs . Fig. 15. Fic. 16. outside board shrinks least in thickness and most in width,and all, except the middle one, shrink differently on oneside from the other. They become conxxx toward the pith,or heart, and concave toward the outside. Different kiiids Wood 33. Fig. 17. of wood shrink and warp to different degrees. You canlearn something about these matters by examining the stockin any lumber-yard. Now to come to the practical application of our briefstudy of the log and thesawing process: if youmerely wish to get the mostthat you can from a log inthe form of boards orplank,have thepiecesslicedoff in the simple way justshown (Fig. 17). This isthe usual way of sawing forordinary purposes. Boardingfor the outside of a house, forinstance, cut in this wayanswers every purpose. Bythis process the central boardswill be good and the outer onesinferior, as just shown (Fig. 16),but for common work all cangenerally be used. If you wish the highly figuredgrain ^ often seen in oak, ash,chestnut, etc., you can get it bysawing the log as just shown inFig. 17. The figure of the grain will be most marked in theouter boards (Fig. 18), because the annual rings are cut more In addition to the curling, the outer l)oards will be poorer because theycontain a grea
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