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Historically wooden jack planes in the United States have typically been 15–18 inches (380–460 mm) long, (180 to 230 mm) long with irons 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (44–64 mm) wide. [3] Under the commonly used Stanley Bailey numbering system for metal-bodied planes the 14 inches (360 mm) long #5 plane is a jack. [4]
Heritage Wooden Railway - Stationed in Concord, New Hampshire, the company (which is a division of AeroPro, who creates scale models of airplanes) focuses on creating mass-produced custom wooden trains for passenger train lines, such as the Amtrak company, and museums such as the B&O Railway Museum, the Virginia Museum of Transportation, and ...
Creative Playthings wooden stacking puzzle. Creative Playthings was an educational toy store and catalogue that was established by Frank and Theresa Caplan in 1945. The goal of Creative Playthings was to provide simple and beautifully designed toys to promote a child’s creativity and imagination.
There are five basic types of construction used in building a wooden ship model hull: . Solid wood hull sawn and carved from a single block of wood. Gluing together two thinner blocks of wood so that a block is formed with the seam vertical, so that the seam will show running down that surface of the block which is to be the deck.
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Roman furniture was constructed principally using wood, metal and stone, with marble and limestone used for outside furniture. Very little wooden furniture survives intact, but there is evidence that a variety of woods were used, including maple, citron, beech, oak, and holly. Some imported wood such as satinwood was used for decoration.
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Construction of traditional wooden Chinese furniture is based primarily of solid wood pieces connected solely using woodworking joints, and rarely using glue or metallic nails. The reason was that the nails and glues used did not stand up well to the vastly fluctuating temperatures and humid weather conditions in most of Central and Southeast ...