BILLY BOYS’ WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

BILLY BOYS’ WORKSHOP

A SMALL WALL CUPBOARD.

This neat little cupboard, which is intended for hanging on a wall, will be found very useful for storing small articles such as bottles of chemicals, tools, or wireless parts. Clean packing case wood will do for the sides, top, and bottom of the cupboard, and for the door a piece of three-ply wood twelve inches long and nine inches wide will be required. . . .. The two pieces for the top and bottom, which are twelve and a half inches long and five and a half inches wide, can he cut from wood a quarter of an inch thick. The sides, which should be cut from three-eighths-inch wood, are twelve

inches long and five inches wide. The front strips, A,A, (which are screwed to the front edges of the sides after the shelf is fixed),, are each , one and a haff inches wide. For the back of the cupboard saw two pieces of quarter-inch wood, each twelve inches long by five and three . quarter inches wide, and, after planning, fix them together side by side by screwing on two strips of wood 8,8 eleven and a half inches long, flush with the top and bottom edges. The parts can now be screwed together with brass countersunk screws, so that the top and bottom projects at the sides and front but are flush at the back. The shelf is eleven and a half inches long and four and five-eighths inches wide, and is fitted in place by screws through the back and side pieces. For the door, plane some pieces of wood a quarter of an inch thick, and one and a half inches wide. Saw off. two twelve-inch lengths, and also two pieces six inches long, and glue and screw these strips to the piece of plywood to give a panel effect. Use small countersunk screws, and screw them in from the inside of the door, See that the points of the screws do not come through the side strips. The little circles in the bottom left hand diagram indicate the position of the screws. Two small brass hinges secure the door on the right hand side, and a small handle with a catch is fixed to the other side of the door, as shown. Give the finished cupboard a coating of light or dark oak varnish stain.

The Hut Carpenter.