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Carpentry

Recipes for Home Repair by Alvin Ubell & Sam Bittman

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Carpentry: Home Repair Basics

Working with wood is not only a craft that can bring you hours of pleasure, it is an art, or it can be. While we are not offering a course in the art of woodworking, we do offer a beginning to a hobby that can transcend the commonplace chores of simple repairs of wooden objects. Tools, as we said, are essential to complete woodworking tasks. What follows is a more than adequate list. You need not purchase them all at one time, though that is not a bad idea.
Top Plate Studs Diagonal Brace Joists Hip Rafter Joists Rafter

Utensils:
1 claw hammer 1 tack hammer 1 ball peen hammer 1 set of screwdrivers (see Recipe 2 on How to Use a Screwdriver) Wood files (smooth, medium, rough) and handles to match 1 crosscut handsaw 1 coping saw 1 small jack plane

Sole Plate

Diagonal Brace Studs Header Sole Plate

Cap Plate Studs

Ingredients:
- Assortment of wood screws - Assortment of woodworking nails - Assortment of tacks - Small hand drill and assortment of bits - Assortment of open-coat sandpaper - Plastic wood - White polyvinyl glue

Sill Girder Cross Bridging Wall Sheathing-tongue & Groove Boards or Plywood Diagonal Subfloor Wall Foundation

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Figure D. Platform Framing for a Typical Two Story House

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