Excerpt from Shavings and Sawdust
Some two years ago when requested by the publisher of the Lumber World to write some articles on the general subject wood-working machinery, the writer hesitated for a considerable time on account of his inexperience in writing on any subject, realizing that while he might be more or less qualified by his practical experience, it was a different thing to tell what he knew in a manner at once interesting and acceptable to that portion of the public interested in the various subjects since written upon. It was, therefore, with not a little reluctance that these articles were commenced.
Finding that they were received favorably by those most interested in such literature, it was resolved to revise and make them more complete, and to add to them enough to include the general line of machinery used in planing mills, sash, blind, and cabinet factories, car shops, etc. They were calculated to interest not only operators, but purchasers and owners as well, and are dedicated to such in the hope that they may be able to extract therefrom a little knowledge by which they might profit.
They treat of the designing, construction, care, and operation of the machinery mentioned above, and are full of shop matter, interspersed with actual incidents that the writer has observed or had connection with. If they show more of the wrong ways of doing things, it is only to show the folly of the same, and as a friendly Warning that the reader might not go and do likewise. Several of these articles have been copied in many of the leading mechanical and trade journals of the country, and the writer has felt that at least a few have read and regarded them with favor.
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