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or if but a single rod is proposed, it may be profitable, 

 to employ this scraper alone to bring us thus far on our 

 way, instead of preparing the plane and providing the 

 rabbeted strip, as heretofore described. Or one fairly 

 skilled in the use of the plane may place his square strip 

 of bamboo in a groove, as shown under the head of 

 " Tips ;" but the groove, however, must be one of sixty, 

 instead of ninety degrees as there shown. Then by 

 using the plane as there described, aided by frequent 

 resort to the gauge shown in the preceding figure, he 

 may accomplish the same result with far less labor than 

 if the scraper alone were relied on. The object sought 

 is to obtain a true angle of sixty degrees opposite the 

 middle of the rind side of the piece of bamboo in hand 

 not to make a glue joint, which is a subsequent step. 

 I have successfully used all these, and many other ways 

 to accomplish this result, and doubtless additional, and 

 possibly better methods still, will suggest themselves to 

 the ingenious reader. 



Next you must provide some grooved strips differing 

 from those described in the preceding section, only in 

 that the angle at the bottom of the groove must be sixty, 

 instead of ninety degrees. 



You will be compelled either to order, or make your- 

 self, a special plane to make this groove, or to build up 

 these strips of two pieces, glued or screwed together. 

 Assuming you have chosen the latter course, you will at 

 once perceive your Bailey plane with its block attach- 

 ment will be a great aid. For if it will, when applied as 

 directed, give the proper angle to a strip of bamboo, it 

 will serve the same purpose when applied to a strip of 

 wood. So procuring two pieces of wood, take off the cor- 

 ners, as shown by the dotted lines (Fig. 69), and fasten 



