BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1931, Page 20 (Supplement)

BILLY BOY’S WORKSHOP

making a box kite. To make this fine box kite, you will require four straight strips of light wood, two'feet four inches long by onequarter inch square; four pieces h . ve ' sixteenths inch stripwood, each 10Jins, leno-; and two pieces of coloured paper measuring four feet two inches long by 10 inches wide. Take the strips of coloured paper, turn over the long edges for one inch; then glue down the folds after insertin'* a length of fine strong string in each fold. . When completed, glue together the ends of each paper strip with a two-inch overlap, so as to form continuous bands eight inches .wide. Now fold each band to divide it into four equal parts, and at each crease o-lue one of the long sticks. The qutei ed< r c of each band should be one inch from the ends of the sticks, and there should be a space of 10 inches between the bands, as indicated in the first diagram. Before glueing the sticks in place, slightly notch each one at a distance of five inches from each end to receive the notched ends of the cross-

pieces A. . To prepare the cross-pieces, take two of the pieces of stripwood, place them

together and drive a fine wire nail through the centre, turning tae ‘end of the nail up underneath. Treat the other two pieces in the same way. Notch the -ends as at B, open out the cross-pieces and fit them inside the kite. They must not fit too tightly or they will split the paper. If they are too long, shorten them slightly and deepen the notches. The flying line is tied .on to one of the long strips in the position indicated at U. To fly the kite, let out about 20 yards of line and get someone to throw up the kite a short distance in the usual fashion. The Hut Carpenter.