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The original steel square book by Stanley is the one I have. I used to have lots of books about carpentry and joinery. I threw them all out except the square book (and one other.) That one you can't memorize. The rest are exercises you probably won't use in a practical sense unless you build exquisite furniture.

There's one other book that I saw advertised in all kinds of building and carpentry mags for decades called something like "A treatise in compound sash construction" which must be out of print and I can't find my copy. It's just a little book and it was always $25. I just couldn't see paying that for something I'd never use. One day I bought it just because I could.

I've never seen a compound window sash even in a fancy store front or any fancy five star hotels I've visited such as in San Francisco. Imagine one quarter of a cylinder with a dome top, divided lights and glazed. You be hard pressed to even find someone to form the convex top glass panes today.

I have seen this done in iron:



Imagine those quarter lights done in wood.
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