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Essential guide to the steel square / Ken Horner.
Packed with hundreds of clear illustrations and diagrams, skill-building exercises, and simple rules of thumb, this handy reference will show any curious carpenter, woodworker, or serious do-it-yourselfer how indispensable the steel square can be in building stairs, roofs, rafters, and practically anything else. No batteries are required - your steel square can solve many problems that your smart phone can't.--COVER.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781565238916
- ISBN: 1565238915
- Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Publisher: East Petersburg, PA : Fox Chapel Publishing, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in 2007. Includes index. "How to figure everything out with one simple tool, no batteries required"--Cover. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- History of the steel square -- A close look at the steel square -- Types of squares -- Testing for square -- Truing a square -- Problem-solving techniques -- Using the scales on a square -- Stairs -- Roofs -- Laying out the rafters -- The speed square -- Circles and square problems -- Laying out angles -- Proportioning problems -- Arch, arc and ellipse problems -- Cylinders and cones: sheet-metal problems. |
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