Carpentry for Boys in a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Carpentry for Boys in a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture
                                            
                            By James Slough Zerbe
                            
                                14 Feb, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Carpentry is the oldest of the arts, and it has been said that the knowledge necessary to make a good carpenter fits one for almost any trade or occupation requiring the use of tools. The hatchet, the saw, and the plane are the three primal implement
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                                                Carpentry is the oldest of the arts, and it has been said that the knowledge necessary to make a good carpenter fits one for almost any trade or occupation requiring the use of tools. The hatchet, the saw, and the plane are the three primal implements of the carpenter. The value is in knowing how to use them.
The institution of Manual Training Schools everywhere is but a tardy recognition of the value of systematic training in the use of tools. There is no branch of industry which needs such diversification, in order to become efficient. Less