HANDWORK IN

WOOD

FOREWORD

This book is intended primarily for teachers of woodwork, but theauthor hopes that there will also be other workers in wood, professionaland amateur, who will find in it matter of interest and profit.

The successful completion of the book is due chiefly to the untiringassistance of my wife, Anna Gausmann Noyes, who has madealmost all of the drawings, corrected the text, read the proof, andattended to numberless details.

Acknowledgments are hereby thankfully given for corrections andsuggestions in the text made by the following persons:

Mr. Chas. W. Weick of Teachers College, and Mr. W. F. Vroomof Public School No. 5, of New York City, for revision of ChaptersIV and V on tools and fastenings.

Mr. Clinton S. VanDeusen of Bradley Polytechnic Institute, forrevision of Chapter X on wood finishing.

The Forest Service, Washington, D. C. for the originals of Figs.1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27,28, 29, 31, 33, and 54.

The New York State Forest Fish and Game Commission for theoriginals of Figs. 12, 14, 15, and 47.

T. H. McAllister of New York for the originals of Figs. 16 and 20.

The Detroit Publishing Company for the original of Fig. 6.

The B. F. Sturtevant Company, Hyde Park, Mass., for the originalof Fig. 57.

Doubleday, Page & Co. for the original of Fig. 30.

Mr. Louis A. Bacon, Indianapolis. Ind., for the clamping deviceshown in Fig. 255.

Sargent & Company, New Haven, Conn., W. C. Toles & Company,Chicago, Ill., The Berlin Machine Works, Beloit, Wis., A. A.Loetscher, Dubuque, Iowa, and the Stanley Rule and Level Co., NewBritain, Conn., for electrotypes.

Allis Chalmers Company, Milwaukee, Wis., Clark Brothers, Belmont,N. Y., The M. Garland Company, Bay City, Mich., The Prescott[page 2]Company, Menominee, Mich., for illustrations of sawmillingmachinery.

And most of all, I wish to acknowledge my obligation to the numerouswriters of whose books and articles I have made free use, towhich references are made in the appropriate places.