ELEMENTARY COURSE
IN
WOODWORK

DESIGNED FOR USE IN HIGH
AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

WITH
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

BY
GEORGE ALEXANDER ROSS

INSTRUCTOR IN
WOODWORK AND PATTERNMAKING
LEWIS INSTITUTE, CHICAGO

FIRST EDITION

A. FLANAGAN COMPANY
CHICAGO :: NEW YORK

Copyright, 1901
by
A. Flanagan Company

The character and object of this book is set forth on its title page.It is a manual designed principally for the practical assistance ofstudents in elementary woodwork in the Lewis Institute.

The author has endeavored to present the subject in such a manner asto make simple the transition from the easier to the more difficultoperations; the exercises have been selected after having had athorough test covering a period of three years, and will be foundpractical in their application to the students in High and TechnicalSchools in elementary woodwork and turning.

Part one, the bench work, is intended to cover a period of eightweeks, two hours per day, and part two, wood turning, four weeks, twohours per day, thus making a course which will be found to touch theprincipal points in elementary work, at the same time giving practicein the uses of the tools most commonly used in carpentry, joinery andwood turning. Disston & Sons’ Handbook for Lumbermen has furnished manyof the facts presented under “Care of Saws.”

It has been the author’s aim in this course to give just enoughinstruction in the work so that the student might be led to study outthe problems for himself; by this means he is able to study the courseof work that follows the second part of this book, i. e., PatternMaking.

A cursory perusal of the work will disclose many features which theauthor feels sure will commend themselves to instructors and othersinterested in this department of school work, and with the hope thatthese pages may prove a valuable aid to students and teachers alike,this work is presented to the public.

George A. Ross.

Lewis Institute, Chicago, 1901.