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Gerald Warren’s Notebook, transcribed

Gerald Warren’s pocket notebook — the trade four generations back — sixteen plates, transcribed from the photographs. The tables are regenerated from the method he used and checked cell by cell against his handwriting. Each plate carries a note on how the same job is done in Ottawa today, and where the Building Code has moved.

If you can't find the time to do it properly, then you never will.

How to read the tables

Checked against the photographs

Terms used in carpentry & joinery work

His own glossary, kept at the back of the book. Only the entries that are legible in the photographs are included.

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