THE WENDY HUT

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1929, Page 24 (Supplement)

THE WENDY HUT

THE BILLY BOYS’ WORKSHOP. MAKING A SET OF BOOKSHELVES. (By the Hut Carpenter.) This week I want to tell you how to make neat bookshelves that will help you to keep books tidy. If made to the sizes given in the diagrams, the shelves will take two dozen volumes measuring six inches by four. Of course, if your books are larger, you can increase the sizes in proportion. You will want two pieces of wqod, fourteen and threequarter inches long, four and a half inches wide, and threeeighths of an inch thick, for the sides. If the wood is rough, go over both sides of each piece with your plane till they are nice and smooth. Then with your ruler and pencil mark out each side piece to the size given in the diagram at A. Saw the wood to the proper length, and also saw off the two top corner pieces. Now mark the positions of the two shelves (B.B.) on "the inside face of each side piece. For the shelves, which should also be three-eighths of an inch thick, saw two pieces of wood to the sizes given at C. The four shelf supports (D), can be cut from a strip of wood threequarters of an inch wide. The back members E and F can be a quarter of an inch thick. Two parts E will be required, and one a little wider for F, which is the middle one. You can now begin to fix the parts of your bookshelves together, and for this you will require two and a half-dozen |Jnch brass screws and eight screws one inch long. Screw the supports D in place first with three screws in each; then fix the three back parts with two screws in each end. Now slip the middle shelf in position, and fix it by two long screws in each end, driven in through the bookshelf sides. Fix the bottom shelf in the same way. If you wish to the bookshelves up on. a wall, obtain two small brass fittings like that shown at G, and screw one on to each side piece just below the top back member. Of course, if your bookshelves are to stand on a table against a wall you will not require these fittings. To finish the bookshelves, give them a coating of varnish stain and put them on one side to dry.