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Example sentences for "soft wood"

  • Soft wood is found to be better than hard, as the former takes up more of the particles of the sand, which act like fine teeth in grinding the stone.

  • There are also other piles, which are round, generally of soft wood, and are found outside the present edge of the island.

  • Some were of oak, and others of soft wood.

  • The Kayan shield is an oblong plate cut from a single piece of soft wood.

  • For each child who is to be named a small human image in soft wood is prepared.

  • There are, however, a few of the Klemantan sub-tribes who never attempt to make anything more than a very rough small canoe of soft wood, and who buy from others what boats they need.

  • If a piece of hard wood is not available, a block of soft wood can be used, but it should be somewhat larger.

  • Almost any kind of soft wood can be used for a boat of this kind.

  • The upper buds, which are commonly not fully grown and which are borne on soft wood, are usually discarded.

  • Cuttings of the stem divide themselves into two general classes: those known as cutting of the ripe, mature or hard wood, and cuttings of the green, immature or soft wood.

  • Increased by seed, suckers of soft wood, layers or cuttings.

  • The posts are the only parts made of quarter-sawed oak, the other parts, being covered with leather, can be made of any kind of soft wood.

  • The back is made of soft wood and is put on in the usual manner.

  • The top board is of oak, and be sure to get the best side up, while the bottom one can be made of soft wood if desired.

  • The front board should be oak, but the remainder can be made of soft wood.

  • This can be easily accomplished by plugging the handle end of the ferule with a piece of soft wood or with clay.

  • Procure a piece of soft wood, pine preferred, and with the skinned body of the fish before you, whittle the wood down to the general shape of the body, but one-fourth smaller in actual size.

  • It is often necessary to cast skulls or teeth, to put in skins that are being mounted, though it is better to carve a skull out of soft wood.

  • The backing of a flat piece of soft wood with an interleaving of stout paper or, better still, millboard, must not be forgotten.

  • Glue strips of soft wood, as shown by K, across the front and back to strengthen them.

  • Fasten pieces of soft wood in the corners for braces.

  • If soft wood, such as basswood or pine was used, it may be treated by burning with the pyrography outfit.

  • Coat the bottom of this space with glue, press the design down into the space and hammer it tight with the mallet and block of soft wood.

  • These eight strips placed alternately light and dark are now glued upon a backing of soft wood, 1/4 inch or less in thickness.

  • A soft wood, like pine, or white wood, is suitable, and after squaring up two faces and one edge, the design may be drawn on one or both of the faces with a sharp pencil.

  • Prepare a piece of 1/4" soft wood, such as bass or pine, and glue the picture to the surface, rolling and pressing out air bubbles and smoothing away all wrinkles.

  • It can easily be made with a penknife out of two pieces of thin, soft wood.

  • In former times fire was obtained in the method common to so many savages, from the heat developed by the friction of the end of a stick worked like a drill against a piece of soft wood.

  • This tool is a little longer in the haft than those commonly used, and the shape and material of the haft is a little unusual, it being generally elliptical in section and made of soft wood.

  • These were kept in a small box carved out of a block of soft wood, in the shape of the animal to be pursued.

  • The wedge is best made of soft wood, which will compress and conform itself to the shape of the slot.

  • It is, indeed, a far better plan to take the tool (after grinding) and rub the cutting edge into a piece of soft wood, and to apply oil to the tool during its first two or three cutting revolutions.

  • E is split at f and a piece of soft wood or similar compressible material is inserted in the split.

  • It all came of snuffing ashes over a soft wood fire, and I reckon I’ve wished there was no sich plaguy stuff, as soft wood, more’n five hundred times sense it happened.

  • Now you see what comes of snuffin’ ashes over a soft wood fire.

  • It is seldom necessary to press against the knob of the brace in boring, as the thread on the spur will pull the bit thru, especially in soft wood.

  • The thread of the screw begins in a fine point so that it may penetrate the wood easily where no hole has been bored as is often the case in soft wood.

  • The awl is useful for making small holes in soft wood, and it can readily be sharpened by grinding.

  • All iron clamps need blocks of soft wood to be placed between them and the finished work.

  • It is also well for the novice to do his initial work with a soft wood, because in joining the parts together inaccuracies may be easily corrected.

  • Then, again, do not stain a piece of furniture so that one part represents a cheap, soft wood, and the other part a dark or costly wood.

  • For working purposes it has all the advantages of a soft wood, and none of its disadvantages.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    commonly made; deeply affected; directly opposed; driver blow his horn; golden color; large flock; little cloud; move against; once resolved; quite sure; severe frost; shall break; she ain; soft and; soft ball; soft cloth; soft dough; soft ground; soft iron; soft palate; soft pine; soft soap; soft steel; soft water; took down; white raiment