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five cents), will be found exceedingly convenient in round- 

 ing and altering wooden joints. 



You will also require a ten -inch "mill -saw" file, a 

 Morse twist-drill one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter, 

 and means for driving it say a common brace and a 

 true surface to plane on. You must also have a few 

 scraps of thin saw-steel, which a broken saw will well 

 supply. If no broken saw is at hand, look in some 

 trades-paper for the advertisement of a saw-maker, and 

 order them from him, but be sure you ask for thin tem- 

 pered stuff. Or you may buy a steel wood-scraper, such 

 as cabinet-makers use, at any hardware store ; but these 

 seem generally to be inferior to 

 the saw-steel for our use. Having 

 obtained these steel scraps, lay 

 them on a flat surface, and file a 

 number or round notches ot vari- 

 ous sizes around the edge, thus: 

 finishing with a pretty fine file. File at a right angle with 

 the steel, and sharpen when dull in the same manner. 



By scraping the joint with this tool after rounding 

 with the plane, you will easily make your joints circular, 

 and be able to dispense with an expensive set of grooved 

 planes. This scraper must be inclined to the joint when 

 used ; a moment's trial will determine the angle at which 

 it cuts best. 



A few other tools will be required, to be described at 

 that stage in the process to which they are applicable. 

 If not already done, the chapter on Rods should be 

 read in conjunction with this, since such special pecul- 

 iarities in working as each material was thought to pos- 

 sess, have been there stated. 



As to those materials, it may be said once for all that 



