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Excerpt from Modern Carpentry and Joinery, Vol. 2: Being a Compilation of the Very Best Things and Most Modern and Practical Methods Known in the Arts of Carpentry and Joinery In a previous volume - Modern Carpentry - I made a fairly successful attempt to put together a series of plain and simple examples of working problems and their solution suited to the capacity of all ordinary mechanics, and owing to the fact that many thousands of that volume have found their way into the hands of carpenters and joiners in the United States, Mexico and Canada, and to the other fact that the author, as well as the publishers, have received hundreds of letters asking for something more on the same lines, of a higher grade, it has been determined to make another or more volumes, on the same subject, hence "Modern Carpentry and Joinery" advanced course. In the present work I have drawn largely from acknowledged authorities and from workmen of recognized ability to which have been added the results of my own experience and observation and my knowledge of the kinks and secrets of the woodworking trades. In a work of this kind the reader must expect to find something he has met in other places, and perhaps in other adaptations, but I think that upon careful analysis he will find the presentation of the cases somewhat improved, and rendered in a more simple and understandable manner. The selections, too, I think will be found more suitable and more appropriate to the present-day practice than most of the matter found in recent technical literature on the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.