BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1930, Page 20 (Supplement)

BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

A USEFUL CORNER.' BRACKET. . 'To make this corner bracket, you will require two pieces of wood, each threeeighths of an inch thick, twelve inches long, . and six-and-a-half inches wide, for tile sides; and another piece seven inches squa r e, out of which you will cut the two shelves. After planing, the side pieces on both surfaces, plane down the long edge of one piece till it is six and three-eighths inches..Sv ide, and the same edge of the other : side piece is six' inches widb. This is to allow- for the‘overlap at the back joint, as shown in diagram A. With your pencil carefully mark out the shape of one side piece, and then cut round the outside of the curved

lines with a pad-saw. (See right hand diagram). Smooth down the rough edge with your chisel,; and finish with glass paper. Now lay this side piece .on the other pi.cce of wood, mark round the curved parts with your pencil, and saw the second'side to shape. Cut the four shelf . supports from half-inch by quarter-inch stripwood. These supports, two of which are shown at 8.8. are fixed to the sides, in the positions indicated in the diagram, by brass countersunk screws. Round off the front ends of each support as indicated. The sides are fixed together bv means of onw-inch screws as shown -at A. - Four screws will be sufficient, placed about three inches, apart. ■ Now-take the square piece of wood for the shelves, and mark a. diagonal line across it, dividiug.it into two equal parts. Mark out the curved shape of the front edge of one of the shelves, as shown in the bottom diagram, and then repeat the curved line on the other side of the. diagonal line. Saw the wood in halves on the diagonal line, and, after cutting the front edge of each shelf close up to the curved line, finish with a. chisel, and glasspajicr. . • ■ Place the shelves in position, and fix them by fine wire nails driven in from the ?back and each side piece. Make a. small hole (D) near the top of the bracket so that it may be hung on a .'wall: The Hut Carpenter. THE DIFFERENCE. Sajnbo was asked what kind of chicken he preferred. “Well, sir,” he replied, after a few minutes’ consideration, “all kinds has der merits. De white ones is de easiest to find in de dark, but de black ones is | de easiest to hide aftah you gets ’em.”