BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)

BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

MAKING A TUMBLER BRACKET FOR A BATHROOM. Any odd pieces of wood, a quarter of an inch'.thick, can be used for this useful bracket. For the back you will require, a piece nine and a half inches wide. Plane it on both sides, mark a centre line on 1 one side, and mark out the curves at top and bottom. Cut round the curved lines with a fret-saw, ! and smooth the rough edges with fine glasspaper. On; the centre line, at a distance of three quarters of an inch from the top edge of the back, make a . quarter-inch hole for hanging on a nail. Cut. out the shelf A to the sizes given in the diagram, the hole in the middle, which is two and three quarter inches in diameter,, being cut out with a fretsaw. Mark out the large curve with, a pair of compasses eet to a radius of three and a half inches. Make the second shelf B .slightly smaller, as indicated in the diagram; this has no central hole. Smooth the edges of both shelves'with glasspaper,. ■ Now cut three email bracket supports, C, from quarter-inch wood. Two of these are glued and screwed to the underside of the top shelf in the positions shown by the dotted lines D.D. Fix the other to the middle of the underside of the lower shelf; .-Attach the shelves arid, supports to the back piece, as shown in the top right-hand diagram, with countersunk screws fiveeighths of an inch long. Give the completed bracket two coats of white or coloured enamel, or,' if preferred, finish it with varnish stain. The Hut Carpenter.