Craft, Trades & Making · Woodworking
A topic within Woodworking, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
2 works
Fred T. Hodgson
Argues that a carpenter who understands the steel square's tables can lay out any roof or stair cut by calculation, without memorising separate rules for each pitch.
about 1.5 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026Peter Nicholson
Reduces roof, floor and joint framing to problems in practical geometry, arguing that a carpenter who can construct the underlying figures can frame any structure without a separate memorised rule for each case.
link checked 17 Sept 2026