Home Building and Woodworking in Colonial AmericaPresents the techniques associated with building a house in colonial times. |
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Contents
II | 1 |
III | 2 |
IV | 3 |
V | 5 |
VI | 6 |
VII | 7 |
VIII | 10 |
X | 11 |
XLI | 47 |
XLII | 48 |
XLIII | 49 |
XLIV | 50 |
XLVI | 54 |
XLVIII | 55 |
XLIX | 56 |
L | 57 |
XI | 12 |
XII | 13 |
XIV | 14 |
XV | 15 |
XVI | 16 |
XVII | 17 |
XIX | 19 |
XXII | 20 |
XXIII | 21 |
XXIV | 22 |
XXV | 23 |
XXVI | 24 |
XXVII | 26 |
XXVIII | 28 |
XXIX | 31 |
XXX | 33 |
XXXI | 34 |
XXXIII | 35 |
XXXIV | 36 |
XXXV | 38 |
XXXVII | 42 |
XXXIX | 45 |
XL | 46 |
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added AMERICAN ANGLE AUGER beam BENCH beveled BLADE BLOCK BOARDS bored BRACE BRACE AND BIT CENTER century CHISEL CLAPBOARD colonial CORNER CROSSCUT CURVED CUTTING EDGE DEPTH DIAMETER DOOR EARLY face feet FELLING FENCE fibers finished flat floor FORM frame FRONT gave give GRAIN GROOVES HALF HAMMER HAND HANDLE HEAD HELD HINGE hold HOLE HORIZONTAL inches INNER IRON joined JOINT joists LARGE later LATHING length LIME LINE LONG LOWER MALLET marks molding MORTISE NAIL needed OPEN OUTER paneled pine PLANE plaster PLATE POINT POLL position POST prevent PURLINS RAFTER raised REMOVED roof ROUND SCORED SCREW SECURED shape SHAVINGS SHINGLES side SILL SMALL SMOOTHING SPLIT SQUARE STEEL STRAIGHT STRAP string studs SUPPORT surface TAPERED TEETH TENON THREADED timber tool trees trimmed TURNED TWIST usually VERTICAL wall WEDGE weight width wood WOODEN
Bibliographic information
| Title | Home Building and Woodworking in Colonial America Illustrated living history series, C. Keith Wilbur |
| Author | C. Keith Wilbur |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0762774649, 9780762774647 |
| Length | 121 pages |
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