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end, where it goes into the handle, half an inch, and at 

 the extreme end of the tip we will render it one-eighth 

 of an inch (see fig. 19). How long shall each of the joints 

 be? The first or butt, may be forty inches; t^e two others 



thirty-six each. 



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These dimensions being deter- 

 mined upon, I draw a perpen- 

 dicular line down the brass or 

 copper plate, with a sharp point 

 'of some kind, of almost any 

 length. In the diagram it is 

 four inches long. This repre- 

 sents 112 inches the length of 

 the rod. Now, across the upper 

 end a line is drawn precisely equal 

 to the diameter of the butt-end 

 of the rod in this case half an 

 inch (see fig. 19), and at the 

 lower end I draw another precisely 

 equal to the diameter of the 

 extremity of the rod or tip in 

 this case one-eighth of an inch. 

 Now two lines 4rawn from the left 

 and right extremities of the upper 

 line to the left and right extremi- 

 ties of the lower line, represent a 

 plan of the taper of the rod. 

 Now take the compasses and di- 

 vide this four-inch perpendicular 

 into eight equal portions, each rep- 

 resenting fourteen inches. Then 

 draw straight lines right across at each intersection, and 

 the length of each of these lines represents the actual thick- 

 ness your rod should be at each section. Thus fourteen 

 inches from the largest end the rod is to be seven-six- 



