1879 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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HOW TO MAKE DOVETAILED SECTION BOXES WITH A FOOT I'OWF.l! SAW 



IVAKINCt t'UAMES, SE< "JTIONS, &e., 

 FOOT AND HAND POWER. 



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gN () many questions Lave been asked about 

 v^ ; making section boxes, frames, etc., with 

 the dovetailed corners, that 1 have giv- 

 en you the engraving above. It can be used 

 with any kind of a buzz saw, and you can 

 make the joints just as tight as you please. 

 [f you make them so they will have to In- 

 driven together with a hammer or mallet, 

 they may be thrown on the floor, without 

 racking the joint. Of course, the joint will 

 he much stronger if you make your stuff 

 pretty thick, and if made as thick as we or- 

 dinarily do where we nail work, it will be 

 pretty nearly as strong. For honey boxes, 

 we do not ordinarily wish to use more than 

 i stud', because much wood with the honey- 

 is objectionable. Any foot power saw will 

 answer. Get a saw that will cut about a | 

 groove, or wider if you wish: a thick saw 

 can he used, or you can set the teeth of an 

 ordinary saw very broad. 



Tut a thin board, i inch thick, over the 

 saw, with a rib fastened to it by slender 

 brads, as shown in the cut. Tins rib is for 

 the track. One of iron or steel would lie 

 better, if much work is to be done. The 

 distance of this track from the saw decides 

 the looseness of your joints. The figure rep- 

 resents a piece of inch or I board. The 

 block is first run tight up to the track, then 

 the groove thus made is next run on the i 

 track, and so on through, always keeping 

 the last groove made, on the track. When 

 your blocks are all grooved, put on an ordi- 

 nary rip saw, and saw off strips. If rightly 

 done. 4 of the sticks should make a frame as 

 shown. You can use a cutter head in place 

 of the thick saw if you choose, but we decid- 

 edly prefer the thick saws, because they 

 have so many more teeth to do the work. 



Now, if you depend on foot power alone 

 to do the work, you will find one saw all yon 

 can use at once, and when you come to rip 

 up 2 inch stuff for sections, yon will find the 

 task a pretty severe one. Our enterprising j 

 friends. Barnes Bros., have come to the aid 

 of those using the foot power machines, and 

 have rigged a crank as shown in the cut. 

 With a large saw. and a man or boy to 



turn, 2 inch stuff can be ripped to very 

 good advantage, much as on the hand rip- 

 per; that is, by this attachment, they make 

 the foot power saw answer for a hand ripper 



too. 



HAND POWER ATTACHMENT FOR I'.AKNK 

 FOOT POWER SAWS. 



The price of the attachment is $5'., and 

 they can be attached to any of the foot pow- 

 er saws they have sold. Orders can be sent 

 to us. if desired. The machine is made with 

 cut gearing, and seems to be very strong 

 and serviceable. 



I DO not like to mar the letters of our contribu- 

 tors, by cutting out portions of them, anymore than 

 1 can help; but sometimes, when you speak unkind- 

 ly of each other, 1 feel a strong disposition to check 

 you by playfully holding my hand up, so that the 

 one to whom the unkind words were directed, may 

 not hear it. When you Bee long dashes in a commu- 

 nication, you may know it is intended for a pleas- 

 ant chiding. You will permit me to take this liberty 

 without being offended, will you not? 



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Dealers in bee keepers' supplies are sending out 

 very neat and complete catalogues, this season. 1 

 think it will be a good idea to have allot them or 

 at least, many of them, for they all contain more or 

 less \ aluable Information. 



Catalogues have been received from the following 



persons: < '. F. Mulh, (in.,0.; J. Oatman & Sous, 

 Dundee, 111.; J. ('. A II. P. Sayles, Hartford, Wis.; 

 Lewis & Parks -mentioned last month— Watertown, 

 Wis.; A.E.Manum, Bristol, Ver. ; M.Richardson, 

 Pt. Colborne, Ont., Can., and B. 0. Everett, Toledo, O. 



