[Pg i]

KING’S SERIES IN WOODWORK AND CARPENTRY

ELEMENTS OF WOODWORK

BY

CHARLES A. KING

DIRECTOR OF MANUAL TRAINING

EASTERN HIGH SCHOOL, BAY CITY, MICHIGAN

NEW YORK ·:· CINCINNATI ·:· CHICAGO

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

Copyright, 1911, by

CHARLES A. KING.

Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London.

W. P. I.

This series consists of five volumes, four of which are intendedas textbooks for pupils in manual-training, industrial, trade, technical,or normal schools. The fifth book of the series, the “Handbookin Woodwork and Carpentry,” is for the use of teachers andof normal students who expect to teach the subjects treated in theother four volumes.

Of the pupils’ volumes, the first two, “Elements of Woodwork”and “Elements of Construction,” are adapted to the needs of studentsin manual-training schools, or in any institution in whichelementary woodwork is taught, whether as purely educationalhandwork, or as preparatory to a high, or trade, school course incarpentry or vocational training.

The volumes “Constructive Carpentry” and “Inside Finishing”are planned with special reference to the students of technical,industrial, or trade schools, who have passed through thework of the first two volumes, or their equivalent. The subjectstreated are those which will be of greatest value to both the prospectiveand the finished workman.

For the many teachers who are obliged to follow a requiredcourse, but who are allowed to introduce supplementary oroptional models under certain conditions, and for others whohave more liberty and are able to make such changes as theysee fit, this series will be found perfectly adaptable, regardlessof the grades taught. To accomplish this, the material has beenarranged by topics, which may be used by the teacher irrespectiveof the sequence, as each topic has to the greatest extent possiblebeen treated independently.

[Pg iv]

The author is indebted to Dr. George A. Hubbell, Ph.D., nowPresident of the Lincoln Memorial University, for encouragementand advice in preparing for and planning the series, and toGeorge R. Swain, Principal of the Eastern High School of BayCity, Michigan, for valuable aid in revising the manuscript.

Acknowledgment is due various educational and trade periodicals,and the publications of the United States Departments ofEducation and of Forestry, for the helpful suggestions that theauthor has gleaned from their pages.

CHARLES A. KING.

...