BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)

BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

A NEWSPAPER RACK.

This useful Newspaper Rack is made from wood three-eightha of an inch thick.

•First, mark the outline of the back A on a piece of planed wood eleven and a half inches long and ten inches wide, and cut away the top corners and the piece from the bottom edge. Cut the triangular hole near , the top edge for hanging up the rack. Next, mark out the shapes of the shelf B and the sloping front C to the sizes given. ’Saw and plane these carefully to the finished sizes; and then plane the bottom edge of the part ,C so that it slopes forward at a slight angle when placed on the shelf. Cut the brackets for supporting the shelf as shown at ,D. After cutting the curved .parts with a pad-saw smooth the rough edges, with glasspaper. To make the 'brackets for the slop-

ing front, saw a piece of wood to the sLms given at E and mark it. out in quarter-inch squares. These will help you to set out the shape of the bracket. After cutting it out and smoothing the edges, place .it on another piece of wood and with a pencil, mark the outline. Cut the other bracket to shape and finish the edges with glasspaper. In fitting the parts together, fix the two brackets D to the back-board by two screws in each, driven in from the 'back of the board. Next, screw the brackets E to the sloping front and fix these parts to. the shelf with screws driven in from underneath. Finally screw the shelf, with the sloping front attached, to the backboard and the supporting brackets. To give, a finish to the rack, pin and Hue a wooden ornament of’ diamond shape on to the sloping front as shown in the first diagram, arid give the whole a coat- of light-oak varnish stain. The Hut Carpenter.