A New String Holder

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)

A New String Holder

YOU can have great fun making this unusual little string holder, which shouldn’t cost anything to make as you will be able to find most of the materials at home.

First of all find a large empty cigar- ] box with a square end, and after rank- I ing a wooden shelf in which two holes have been bored, fit it into the box in I the position shown in tloagram 2. This J shelf is put in so that the string will > not become tangled when it is unrolled. I Another method would be to fix a tin to the bottom of the box, so that the I

ball of string could be put inside it. The end of the string could be threaded through a hole in the lid of the tin. The windmill scene can be drawn on a piece of drawing paper to the same scale as the sketch. Cut out a piece of paper to cover the outside surface of the door, and on it draw the same number of graph lines as are shown in din gram 3. It will then be an easy matte to draw the scene by arranging line in positions to correspond with the line in diagram 3. When the scene has been drawn ii outline, paste the paper on to the lid ready for painting with water-colours. The mill can be coloured deep green, the grass light green, the distant hills purple, the mill in the distance brown, and the sky blue, with white fleecy clouds. The outlines, the doors, and the windows can be black.

When the water-colour is quite dry paint over the surface with clear lacquer to make the water-colour permanent and to give a gloss to the paper. The shaft shown in diagram 2 is made from a piece of wire 5 inches long and i inch in diameter, and is put through the hole marked A in diagram 3. The sails of the windmill may bo attached to the part that juts out. The other end of the shaft, should fit into a small block fixed at the correct height on the back of the box (diagram 2). A cotton-reel can be inserted on the shaft'to form a pulley, and washers can be used to keep it in position. Make the sails (2Jin, x jin.) from thick cardboard. Tack them to a small cross of thin wood with a hole in the centre to fit tightly on to the end of the shaft.

Bo certain that the fastener on the box is strong enough to prevent the lid from flying open, and then you can stain the box with varnish. Small brackets or hangers can be used to attach the holder to the wall. Wind the string around the pulley a couple of times, pass it out through a hole in the bottom, and then close the

door of the box. When the string is pulled from the bottom the sails of the windmill will turn. The holder may be used pn a table if a weight is placed in the bottom and the string is allowed to p:i“s out thr-'iivll

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