PLANING THE STRIPS 



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From all of the foregoing the observant reader 

 will rightly conclude that he can complete four rods, 

 for example, if working on all four together, in much 

 less than four times the period that would be re- 

 quired for one alone. He can do all his splitting 

 and assembling, all his rough and then the fine plan- 

 ing, all gluing up, the ferrule-fitting, all windings, and 

 finally the varnishing, making a finish of each of these 

 procedures in the order noted, and so " getting his 

 hand in " on each that the bunch of rods is run 

 through in a surprisingly short time. 



The preliminary planing of most commercial 

 " handmade " rods is done on a planing machine, 

 only the final, accurate trimming of the strips being 

 accomplished with a hand plane, when a long, jointer 



Planing-mold with side track 



plane may be used. The beveling may be done by 

 feeding the strips to two rotary saws or cutters set 

 at an angle of sixty degrees to each other, and the 

 tapering accomplished by the automatic raising of 

 a strip into the apex of the angle formed by the 

 cutters as its small end approaches them. In finish- 



