“Grizzly Giant,” a Big Tree in Mariposa Grove, California
ELEMENTARY WOODWORKING
BY
EDWIN W. FOSTER
GINN & COMPANY
BOSTON · NEW YORK · CHICAGO · LONDON
Copyright, 1903
By EDWIN W. FOSTER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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The Athenæum Press
GINN & COMPANY · CAMBRIDGE
· MASSACHUSETTS
PREFACE
This text has been prepared for the purpose of furnishingthe pupil with the essential facts about toolsand their uses. However efficient the instruction maybe and however attentive the pupil, it is impossible forhim to fully grasp and comprehend during a demonstrationthe names of tools and technical terms, most ofwhich are new to him. This applies with equal forceto the manner of using the tools and to the methods ofworking.
The function of the text is to supplement the instructionof the teacher. It is intended to gather up andarrange in a logical order the facts which the pupilhas already been told. By this means these facts willbecome fixed in the mind of the pupil and he will workwith a better understanding and make greater progress.
It is believed that the text can be used to the greatestadvantage by requiring the pupil to read up the subjectspresented in class immediately after the close of thelesson. Frequent rapid reviews and occasional writtentests are very effective.
No course of study in the form of a series of modelsis presented. It is hardly possible for any two schoolsto follow the same series of models. Local conditionsnecessarily affect the choice of a course, while new andbetter designs are being brought out continuously.
The order in which the tools are described in the followingpages is the one that has seemed most natural.They may be taken up, however, in any convenient andlogical order.
It is with the earnest hope that nature study andmanual work may be closely correlated, that Part II isadded. No better period can be selected in which tostudy trees, their leaves, bark, wood, etc., than whenthe student is working with wood, learning by experienceits grain, hardness, color, and value in the arts.
Occasional talks on the broader topics of forestry, itseconomic aspects, climatic effects, influence on rainfall,the flow of rivers, floods, droughts, etc., will be foundinteresting as well as instructive, and such interestshould be instilled into every American boy and girl.
The writer is indebted to the Fish, Forest, and GameCommission of New York state for the series of Adirondacklumbering scenes, and to the United States Bureauof Forestry for the views of California Big Trees.
EDWIN W. FOSTER.
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