Excerpt from The Carpenters Steel Square, and Its Uses: Being a Description of the Square, and Its Uses in Obtaining the Lengths and Bevels of All Kinds of Rafters, Hips, Groins, Braces, Brackets, Purlings, Collar-Beams, and Jack-Rafters Feeling confident that the additions to the present edi tion will commend themselves to the toiling thousands who have daily use for the Steel Square, the publishers send the enlarged work out to the public with a knowl edge that it will be welcomed by those who are most interested in the subject of which it treats. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.