mitre box

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• Provide yourself with a good saw, a hammer, a square, and a mitre-box.

  Amateur Gardencraft | Eben E. Rexford

• The camber facilitates cutting to the bottom in mitre-box work without sawing into the bed piece of the box.

  Farm Mechanics | Herbert A. Shearer

• Hand sawing is generally not exact enough to produce angles of sufficient accuracy even when an ordinary mitre box is used.

  The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration | Charles Franklin Warner

• Fig. 182 shows the shapes possible on a 45-degree mitre box.

  Carpentry and Woodwork | Edwin W. Foster

• An iron mitre-box is useful but rather expensive, and you can get along with the wooden one described further on.

  Woodworking for Beginners | Charles Gardner Wheeler