One must learn to work fast but to keep cool.

To expedite matters, everything should be quite ready before the process is begun, clamps, protecting blocks of wood, paper to protect the blocks from sticking to the wood, braces to straighten angles, mallet, try-square, and all other appliances likely to be required.
[Footnote 9: For special directions, for particular joints, see under the various joints, (Chap.

VII.)] Whenever it is possible to break up the process into steps, each step can be taken with more deliberation.

For example, in assembling framed pieces that are doweled, it is well to glue the dowels into one set of holes beforehand, making tenons of them, as it were.

Time is thus saved for the final assembling when haste is imperative.