Contents
The Steel Square and Its Uses
What Is Needed to Excel
Open Ways to Knowledge
The Finished Workman
Uses of the Steel Square
Historical and Descriptive
Description of the Square
How to Test the Square
Use of the Figures, Lines, and Scales
The Diagonal Scale
Board, Plank and Scantling Measure
Brace Rule
Octagonal Scale
The Adjustable Fence
Application of the Fence
Formation of a Brace
Roof Framing
Rafters
Laying out a Rafter
Pitches and Fractions
How to Get the Bevels
Roof Pitches Explained
Reversed Pitches
Irregular, Uneven, or Unequal Pitches
Projecting Cornice
Find the Length of Rafters Where the Rises in the Roof are of Different Height
The Pitch of the Tower Roof
Hip Rafters
Length of Hip Rafters--How to Get the Inches and Fractions
Valley Rafter for Gable
Curved Hip Rafters
Common Rafters
To Find the Length and Cut of Rafters
The Measurement Line of Hips and Valleys
An Unequal Pitch
To Find the Length of the Jacks
Hip Roof Framing
Hoppers and Hopper Bevels
Stair-Building
Combination Squares
Key to Steel Square
Possibilities of the Steel Square
Miscellaneous Rules
Polygons and Miters
Pitches and Roof Framing

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