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The skew is used in cutting both to the right and to the left, and therefore, must be beveled on both sides.
A COURSE IN WOOD TURNINGARCHIE S. MILTON AND OTTO K. WOHLERS
A carver's skew chisel will be, perhaps, more generally useful for your work than one ground squarely across.
WOODWORKING FOR BEGINNERSCHARLES GARDNER WHEELER
After the stock has been roughed away with the gouge to the approximate angle desired, a smoothing cut is taken with the skew.
A COURSE IN WOOD TURNINGARCHIE S. MILTON AND OTTO K. WOHLERS
Among the skew bridges on Mr. Brunels railways, there are a few of extreme obliquity.
THE LIFE OF ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL, CIVIL ENGINEERISAMBARD BRUNEL
Care should be taken that the skew chisel is held at the exact angle of the taper desired.
A COURSE IN WOOD TURNINGARCHIE S. MILTON AND OTTO K. WOHLERS
I am only too glad to have been enabled to skew my friendship by this trifling service.
THE MEMOIRES OF CASANOVA, COMPLETEJACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT
Sylvester called an instrument based on this property a plagiograph or a skew pantograph.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 17, SLICE 8VARIOUS
This renders this form of gearing preferable to skew bevels when employed upon vertical shafts.
MODERN MACHINE-SHOP PRACTICE, VOLUMES I AND IIJOSHUA ROSE
A smoothing cut is taken with a skew chisel the same as in spindle work.
A COURSE IN WOOD TURNINGARCHIE S. MILTON AND OTTO K. WOHLERS
Prior to the modeling a shearing cut should be taken with the skew chisel to face off the material to an even surface.
ADVANCED TOY MAKING FOR SCHOOLSDAVID M. MITCHELL

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