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Baguette (Fr.). A small moulding. 



Bale Boards. A term used for boards swinging from the ceiling of 

 stables by means of chains, and used instead of stall divisions ; 

 also the boards used in bales of cloth. 



Balk. A beam, or piece of sawn or hewn timber, 4 to 8 in. square. 



Ball Bearings. Bearings in which steel balls are used to eliminate 

 friction. The best type for journal bearings consists of a 

 row, or rows, of balls held in a cage and revolving between 

 two rings of hardened steel. 



Baltic. Of or appertaining to the sea which separates Norway 

 and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark and Germany ; situated 

 on the Baltic Sea. 



Baluster or Balustrading. Small columns or pilasters protecting 

 the outer ends of stairs and supporting the handrail. Cor- 

 rupted in common language to " banisters " or " bannisters." 

 In Tudor and Jacobean work the size or diameter of the 

 balusters, usually 3 in. to 4 in., gave the widths of the 

 clear spaces between, hence the screens were half solid. In. 

 late seventeenth-century staircases balusters were often re- 

 placed with solid boarding perforated to flowing designs, and 

 carved on one or both sides. See "Handrail." 



Band Resaw. Band-saws used for resawing planks or flitches 

 into boards are known by this name ; they are provided 

 with roller feed. 



Band Saw. A saw in the form of an endless steel belt, with teeth 

 on roller edge, running over wheels. 



Economy of the band saw. Not the least important point 

 is the question of the waste of wood, and here the band saw 

 gives by far the best results. The amount of wood lost in 

 sawdust by a circular saw, 6 ft. diameter, per cut is -fV in. ; 

 therefore when producing boards 1 in. thick, the waste is 

 24 per cent. A band saw wastes at the most | in. per cut, 

 or, when cutting 1 in. , 1 1 per cent. Again, to make a board 

 cut by a circular saw, when planed on both sides, hold up 

 to |- in., it must be cut 1 in. thick, i.e., T V in. nrust be 

 allowed on each side for planing, while, on the other hand, 

 owing to the superior cutting of the band saw, it is only 

 necessary to allow aV in. on each side for planing, showing 

 an additional saving of ^V in. per cent. This gives a total 

 saving of in. per cut by the use of the band saw. 



Baad-Saw Machine, with Self-acting Canting Table. The tables 

 of these machines have a self-acting canting motion for con- 

 veniently cutting sweeps of varying bevel. 



Banister or Bannister. A corruption of " baluster" (ivhich see). 



