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Fascia. A band or fillet, or any flat member with a little pro- 

 jection, as the band of an architrave. 



Fashion in Woods. The old English fashionable wood, before 

 the discovery of the great continent of America, was native- 

 oak, which in furniture was inlayed with black or bog-oak 

 and white or yellow woods ; walnut gained a place later in 

 furniture, and then, in the eighteenth century, came the red 

 cedars and mahoganies of Central America, which, with their 

 rich warm colour, created a revolution lasting over a century, 

 the ornament connected therewith being the " roe " and 

 " feather." The nineteenth century closed with " American 

 black walnut " being the fashionable wood. See " Figure in 

 Woods." 



Fast. In saw filing, a saw when raised up is said to be " fast " 

 in those places that come up to the straight -edge. 



Fathom. A measure of wood containing 216 cubic ft. ; thus, 

 timber 6 ft. cube, or 12 ft. long, 6 ft. broad and 3 ft. high is a 

 fathom. 



Fault and Faulty. A building term implying that some substance, 

 the ground, a roof or a beam of wood, has developed sub- 

 sidence, disrepair, or weakness, in some part and is rated as 

 useless, faulty, defective or imperfect either in the plan or 

 design. Also applied to wood, and faulty pieces are common. 



Feather-boarding. A covering of boards, in which the edge of one 

 board overlaps a part of the one next it ; and also called 

 Weather Boarding. 



Featheredge. -A board thinner on one edge than it is on the other. 

 The term is also used in America to denote an over-sharpened 

 cutting edge. 



Feed. In sawing timber, the linear length of log, expressed in 

 inches, which is cut at each revolution of the saw. 



Felloe or Felly. The exterior wooden rim, or a segment of the 

 rim, of a wheel, supported by the spokes. 



Felloe Boring and Spoke Tanging Machine. The felloe which 

 forms part of the rim of a wheel is fixed to a little table with 

 self-centring apparatus which holds the felloe while being 

 bored. The same machine is used for tanging the spokes of 

 a wheel after they have been driven in the nave, a tanging 

 chuck being used in place of the boring tool. 



Felly (plural Fellies). See "Felloe." 



Fence, Fencing, and Fencings. Terms in architecture, trade, 

 landed estates, the forest and the saw-mill ; a fence, if of 

 wood, has a terminology all its own, especially so if treated 

 with some preservatives other than tar or paint, or is 



