BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)

BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

I MAKING A SEWING TIDY. . . ■ < * - Ordinary fretwood, either, oak. or walnut, should be used for this tidy,, which will make an acceptable gift for mother or sister. The five pegs are for cotton reels and thimble and the two slots are for ' scissors. ~ : ; . For the back of the tidy, obtain a piece of wood that will cut to the sizes given in Diagram A. Plane the edges square and mark out the shape. Saw the corners as. shown, and carefully away the wood not required, round off finish the edges .with a chisel. Diagram B and round off the front Cut the shelf to the sizes given in corners. At a distance of one inch from the back edge,: make five quarter-inch holes, spaced as indicated. Also cut two slots, one inch long and about five-

sixteenths-inch wide for the scissors. The pegs for holding the cotton reels are two inches long.. Cut them from quarter-inch dowel rod, or a thick wooden knitting needle of the required diameter, round the top ends with glasspaper, and glue the other ends into the holes in the shelf. Cut the two brackets which support the shelf to the shape shown at C. Remove all roughness with glasspaper. Before fixing the ehelf in position, make three screw holes through the back as indicated in Diagram A, and screw on the shelf with fivg eighths inch brass, screws. Then screw the brackets to the back and shelf in the positions shown. With a quarter-inch bit make two holes, D.D., by which to hang the tidy on the wall. Instead of using hard wood, the tidy can be made from pieces of ,ordinary deal, in which case give it a coat of cellulose paint in any suitable colour. The Hut Carpenter.