Fig. 4. how corner joints are made
About Working Drawings.
—When most boys—to say nothing of the majority of men—start to make something they simply knit their eyebrows (not high-brows) and think out how it will look in the concrete—that is when it is all done and ready to use.
Then they go ahead and begin to saw up the lumber and put the pieces together. The result is that when the object is finished it looks very different from the thing they so proudly pictured in their mind’s eye. Now the right way to build what you want and have it look as it ought to is to make a working drawing of it.
To do this draw a picture of it to a scale, of say 1 inch to the foot; that is, if it is to be 4 feet long draw it 4 inches long. The drawings I have made of the [work-bench] and the [tool box] which follow will show you how to make simple working drawings and the last part of Chapter III explains it all in detail, so read it carefully.
Things for You to Make.
—When you have your workshop ready, your tools at hand, the foregoing ideas of woods in your mind and know about simple working drawings you can go ahead and make things and your first job will probably be to make a bench.
Fig. 5. an easily made work bench