Handicraft for boys

by A. Frederick Collins

CONTENTS

CHAPTER				PAGE
I.	CARPENTRY WORK AND CABINET MAKING				[1]
		The Tools You Need — The Kinds of Tools — Some Hints on UsingTools
			How to Hold a Hammer — How to Use a Saw — How to Use a Plane — How to Use Chisels andGouges — How to Use a Brace and Bit — How to Use a Rule — How to Use a Marking Gauge — How to Use Hand Screws and Clamps —How to Use a Nail Set — How to Use a Gimlet — How to Drive Nails and Screws — How to Make a Glue-Pot — How to Make GoodGlue and How to Use It
		How to Sharpen Your Tools
			About Sharpening Saws — About Sharpening Chisels and Plane Bits — About Sharpening AugerBits
		How to Take Care of Your Tools — Removing Rust from Tools — To EtchYour Name on Tools — Kinds of Wood to Use
			Pine; Cedar; Mahogany; Oak; Birch; Walnut
		How to Make Joints
			Edge Joints — Corner Joints
		About Working Drawings — Things for You to Make
			How to Make a Work Bench — How to Make a Tool Chest
II.	SCROLL SAWING, WOOD TURNING, WOOD CARVING, ETC.				[24]
		All About Scroll Sawing
		Scroll Sawing Outfits — A Cheap Scroll Sawing Outfit
			How to Use the Scroll Saw
		A Few Other HelpfulThings
			A Hand Saw-Table — Files for Scroll Work — A Twist Drill Stock — A Pair of Pliers — ASmall Hammer — Scroll Saw Blades
		How to Trace a Design on Wood — Designs for Scroll Sawing — Foot-PowerScroll Saws
			The Cricket Scroll Saw — The Lester Scroll saw — The Fleetwood Scroll Saw
		How a Foot-Power Scroll Saw Works — How to Saw on a Foot-Power ScrollSaw — Fancy Woods for Scroll Saw Outfits — Table of Scroll Saw Woods — Trimmings for Boxes, Etc.
		Turning in Wood
		Get a Lathe First
			How a Lathe is Made
		The Cheapest Lathe You Can Buy
			Attachments for the Companion Lathe
		Turning Tools for Wood — How to Turn Wood
		The Art of Wood Carving
		Your Set of Carving Tools — The Best Woods for Carving — Kinds ofWood Carving
			Chip Carving — Panel Carving — Carving in Solid Wood
		Pyrography, or Wood Burning
		The Necessary Tools
			How to Make an Etching Tool — How to Make an Alcohol Lamp — A Better Outfit — About theDesigns — How to Burn in the Designs
		Coloring and Staining Wood
			Where to Buy Stains — Ebony Stain — Fumed Oak
III.	METALS AND METAL WORKING				[56]
		Your Kit of Tools — The Various Kinds of Tools — Some Hints on Usingthe Tools
			About Sharpening Tools
		Metals and TheirUses
			Iron Wrought Iron Steel Tin Zinc Lead Copper Aluminum
		A Few Useful Alloys
			Brass Type-Metal Pewter
		How to Do Metal Work — First Sketch Your Ideas — Sheet MetalWork
			Cutting and Sawing — Making Seams and Joints
		How to Solder Metals
			Fluxes Solders
		Bolts and Rivets — Bending Sheet Metal — Finishing Up Metals — ColoringMetals
			Bluing Steel — Bluing Brass — Giving Brass a Green Color — Giving Brass a Dull Look —Frosting Brass Articles — Lacquering Brass and Copper — How to Make the Lacquer
IV.	VENETIAN IRON, REPOUSSÉ, PIERCED BRASS AND PEWTER WORK				[76]
		Venetian Bent Iron Work
		The Tools You Must Have — The Materials You Need — What to DoFirst
			Making a Simple Design
		How to Make a Toaster — How to Make an Egg Boiler — How to Make aVenetian Plate Holder
			A Dead Black Finish for Iron Work
		Doing Repoussé Work
		Tools Needed for Repoussé Work — Howto Prepare the Work — Tracing the Design —Bossing the Work — How to Make a Flat Candlestick — How to Make a Photo Frame
			Cleaning and Polishing Metal Work — Finishing, Coloring and Lacquering Metals
		Pierced Metal Work
		The Outfit to Do it With — How to Do the Work
		Casting and Working Pewter
		Something About Pewter — How to Make Pewter — About Working Pewter —How to Cast Pewter — The Patterns Necessary — Making the Mold — Finishing the Ware
		Engraving on Metal
		The Tools that are Used — How to Engrave on Metal
V.	DRAWING SIMPLY EXPLAINED				[103]
		Free-Hand Drawing
		Talent versus Practice — Pictures for You to Draw — Simple LineSketches — Sketching Simple Outline Figures — The Proportions of the Human Figure — How to Draw Faces — Sketching StillLife Objects — Drawing in Perspective
			The Vanishing Point
		How to Shade a Drawing
		Working Drawings
		Drawing Tools You Should Have — Simple Working Drawings
			Making Plain Drawings — Isometric Perspective Drawings
		Some Simple Aids to Drawing
		How to Draw a Circle — How to Draw a Spiral — How to Draw an Ellipse —How to Make and Use a Pantagraph — How to Makea Reflecting Drawing Board — How to Make Tracings — To Make Lasting Impressions — The Ancient and Honored Art of CuttingSilhouettes — Transfer Pictures of Decalcomania
			How to Transfer the Pictures
VI.	SOME KINKS IN PHOTOGRAPHY				[131]
		How to Make Blue Prints
			The Materials Required
		Another Kind of Contact Printing
			To Tone and Fix the Pictures — Receipt for a Combined Toning and Fixing Solution
		The Simplest Kind of a Camera — How to Develop a Dry Plate
			How to Make the Developer — How to Make a Fixing Bath
		A Good and Cheap Camera — How to Make an Enlarging Apparatus — How toMake an Enlargement
			A Developer for Bromide Paper
		How to Make a Reflectoscope
			How to Use the Reflectoscope
		How to Make a Magic Lantern
			How to Work the Lantern
		How to Make Lantern Slides — How to Make Radium Photographs
		Trick Photography
		Spirit Photographs — One Way to Catch Big Fish — Taking CaricaturePhotographs
VII.	PRINTING AND ITS ALLIED ARTS				[157]
		Kinds of Printing Presses — The Parts of a Self-Inking Press — How thePress Works — Sizes and Prices of Presses — The Outfit You Need
			Outfit for a 3 × 5 Press — Outfit for a 5 × 8 Press — Outfit for an 8 × 10 Press
		About Type and Type Setting
			Relative Number of Type Letters — Styles ofType — The Parts of a Type — The Sizes of Type — Table of Type Sizes — Your Type Cases — Setting the Type
		Making Ready — Printing the Job — How to Clean Type — AboutDistributing Type — The Ink and Rollers — Printing in Colors — Printing in Gold — And Finally Your Stock Supply
		The Art of Paper Making
		What Paper Is — How to Make Paper
			Making the Pulp — The Molds You Need — Laying the Paper
		Sizing and Finishing
		How to Bind Books
			Making the Cover — Sewing the Book — Putting on the title
VIII.	RUBBER STAMPS, DIE SINKING, BURNING BRANDS AND STENCILS				[183]
		Rubber Stamps
		How to Make Rubber Stamps
			The Materials Needed
		Making the Mold — Vulcanizing the Rubber — Mounting the Rubber — Howto Use a Rubber Stamp
			How to Make an Ink Pad
		How to Make Rubber Stamp Ink — How to Make a Copygraph Pad — How toCopy a Letter — How to Make Hectograph Inks
		Die Sinking
		How to Make Badges, Name Plates, Etc. — How to Sink the Letters —Finishing Up the Badge
		Burning Brands
		How to Make a Burning Brand
			How to Use the Burning Brand
		Stencils
		How to Cut Stencils
			Cutting Paper Stencils — Cutting Brass Stencils —How to Use Practical Stencils — How to Make Stencil Ink — How to UseDecorative Stencils — Mixing Colors for Stenciling Borders
IX.	THE ART OF WORKING GLASS				[202]
		What Glass Is — How to Cut Glass — How to Use a Glass Cutter — Howto Finish off Glass Edges — How to Drill Holes in Glass — A Couple of Ways to Cut Glass Tubing — How to Cut Glass Disks —How to Bend Glass Tubing
			What a Bunsen Burner Is
		How to Blow Glass — To Round the Ends of Tubes — To Border theEnds of Tubes — To Seal One End of a Tube — To Make a Glass Nozzle — To Make a Hole in a Tube — To Join Two Tubes of theSame Size — To Join a Tube to the Side of Another Tube — To Blow a Bulb on the End of a Tube
			How to Make a Blowpipe — How to Blow a Bulb
		How to Etch Glass
			The Sand Blast Process — How to Make Ground Glass — The Acid Process
		How to Cement Glass — A Simple Way to Frost Glass
		Substitutes for Glass
			Mica Gelatine
		How to Silver a Mirror
X.	TOYS FOR THE KIDDIES				[227]
		How to Make a Policeman’s Puzzle — How to Make an Automobile Truck —How to Make a Swell Coaster — How to Make A Nifty Wheelbarrow — How to Make a High-Low Swing — How to Make a Stick Horse —How to Make a Pony and Cart — How to Make aLife-Like Goose — How to Make a Dancing Sambo — How to Make a Wireless Pup
XI.	HOME MADE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS				[252]
		The Musical Coins
		How to Make Them — How to Play Them
		The Musical Tomato Cans
			How to Make Them — To Play the Musical Tomato Cans
		The Musical Glasses
			How to Make Them — How to Play the Glasses
		The Tubular Harp
			How to Make It — How to Play the Harp
		The Musical Push Pipe
			How to Make It — How to Play the Push Pipe
		The Curious Xylophone
			How to Make It — How to Play the Xylophone
		The Peculiar Tubaphone
			How to Make It — How to Play the Tubaphone
		The Cathedral Chimes
			How to Make Them — How to Play the Cathedral Chimes
		The Aeolian Harp
			How to Make It — How the Wind Plays It
		An Egyptian Fiddle
			How to Make It — How to Make the Bow
XII.	SOME EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS				[274]
		Cartoons While You Wait
			Drawing the Cartoons
		Thirty Minutes of Chemistry — The Mystic Glass of Milk — The MagicFountain — The Vicious Soap Bubbles — The UncannyWheel — Giving a Travelogue — An Electrical Soirée — Demonstrating Electricity WithoutApparatus
			The Electrified Papers — How to Electrify a Person — How Like Repels Like
		Making Experiments With Apparatus
			The Induction, or Spark Coil — Demonstrating Wireless Telegraphy
		Reading Palms for Fun
			How to Read Palms
		A Talk on the Steam Engine
			Making the Model Engine
		How the Engine Works

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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A Model Engine, Showing the Principal Working Parts	[Frontispiece]
Some Useful Wood Working Tools	[3]
A Few More Common Wood Working Tools	[5]
A Clamp Often Comes in Handy	[7]
How Edge Joints Are Made	[17]
How Corner Joints Are Made	[19]
An Easily Made Work Bench	[20]
A Wood Vise for Your Work Bench	[21]
A Carpenter’s Tool Chest	[22]
The Tray for Your Tool Chest	[23]
A Simple and Cheap Sawing Outfit	[25]
The Right Way to Use a Hand Scroll Saw	[27]
A Hand Scroll Saw Table	[28]
Some Necessary Scroll Sawing Tools	[29]
Mechanical Masterpieces Made With a Scroll Saw	[31]
The Cheapest Foot-power Scroll Saw Made	[32]
The Lester Scroll Saw with Turning Lathe Attachment	[33]
The Fleetwood Scroll Saw	[34]
The Chief Parts of a Turning Lathe	[37]
The Cheapest Wood Turning Lathe Made	[39]
A Set of Wood Turning Tools	[41]
Putting the Rough Wood in the Lathe	[42]
The Right Way to Hold a Wood Working Tool	[42]
Sizing the Turned Work	[43]
Kinds and Sweeps of Carving Tools	[45]
Markers for Stamping in Backgrounds	[46]
Schemes for Holding Work When Carving	[46]
Kinds of Carving	[48]
A Carved Watch Case Holder	[49]
The Tool Used for Pyrography	[52]
An Outfit that Burns Benzine Vapor	[53]
How the Tool is Heated	[54]
Burning in the Design	[54]
The Chief Metal Working Tools	[58]
Some Other Metal Working Tools	[59]
How Metal Seams and Joints are Made	[70]
Materials You Need for Venetian Iron Work	[77]
A Useful Bent Iron Toaster	[79]
How to Make an Egg Boiler	[80]
An Artistic Venetian Plate Holder	[81]
A Sconce for a Candle	[83]
How to Hold a Repoussé Hammer	[84]
A Punch and Punch Designs for Repoussé Work	[85]
How to Hold a Repoussé Punch	[85]
A Repoussé Candlestick	[87]
A Repoussé Photo Frame	[89]
The Tools You Need for Pierced Brass Work	[90]
A Pierced Brass Candle Shade	[91]
A Pierced Brass Toast Sign	[93]
Iron Ladle for Melting Pewter	[95]
How a Pewter Casting is Made	[96]
Home Made Pewter Ware	[98]
Tools for Engraving on Metal	[99]
How to Hold a Graver	[100]
An Engraving on a Sheet of Copper	[101]
A Simple Line Drawing of a Man and a Horse	[104]
A Simple Outline Drawing of a Boxer and a Race Horse	[105]
The Proportions of the Human Body	[106]
A Full View of the Face	[107]
A Profile View of the Face	[108]
The Vanishing Points of a Perspective Drawing	[109]
How to Find the Vanishing Point	[110]
The Vanishing Points Put to Use	[111]
The Drawing Tools You Need	[112]
The T Square and Triangle on the Drawing Board	[114]
The Plan Drawing for a Box	[115]
The Box Drawn in Isometric Perspective	[116]
How the Lines for Isometric Drawings are Made	[117]
A Sheet of Isometric Drawing Paper	[118]
The Proportions of an Isometric Ellipse	[119]
How to Draw a Circle with a Thread	[120]
How to Draw a Spiral with a Thread	[121]
How to Draw an Ellipse with a Thread	[122]
How a Pantagraph is Made and Used	[122]
How a Reflecting Drawing Board is Made and Used	[123]
A Lasting Carbon (Soot) Impression of Your Hand	[125]
Silhouettes of Your Great-Grand-pa and Great-Grand-ma (When They Were Young)	[127]
A Photo Printing Frame	[131]
An Easily Made Pin-hole Camera	[135]
The Pin-hole Camera Complete with Cloth and Rubber Bands	[137]
Two Cheap and Good Cameras	[139]
A Home-made Enlarging Apparatus	[141]
A Home-made Enlarging Apparatus	[143]
A Home-made Enlarging Apparatus	[144]
A Cheaply Made Reflectoscope	[145]
A Cross Section Top View of the Reflectoscope	[146]
The Reflectoscope Ready for Use	[147]
The Parts of a Home-made Magic Lantern	[149]
The Magic Lantern Ready for Use	[150]
A Photograph of a Coin Made with Radium	[152]
One Way to Catch a Cod	[155]
How Caricatures are Made	[156]
A Model Self-inking Printing Press	[159]
An Outfit for a Model Press	[162]
The Parts of a Type	[165]
How the Type Cases are Arranged	[167]
The Upper Case	[168]
The Lower Case	[168]
How to Hold a Composing Stick	[169]
Putting a Stick of Type in the Chase	[170]
Tools for Locking Up a Chase	[171]
A Frame for Paper Making	[177]
How to Cut Boards and Cloth for Book Binding	[179]
Sewing on the Muslin Flap	[180]
The Bound Book Complete	[181]
The Matrix Frame, Chase and Boards for Making RubberStamps	[184]
The Type in the Chase. Plaster of Paris Impression in the Matrix Frame	[186]
The Matrix with the Rubber Gum in Place Ready to Vulcanize	[187]
The Rubber Stamp Ready to Use	[188]
Pulling an Impression from the Copygraph	[191]
First Steps in Making a Badge	[192]
The Badge on a Flat-iron in a Vise. Sinking in the Letters	[193]
Steel Letters and Figures for Die Sinking	[194]
Last Steps in Making a Badge	[195]
A Burning Brand of Iron or Copper	[197]
Stencil Letters and Stencils	[199]
Glass Cutters	[204]
The Right Way to Hold a Diamond Point Glass Cutter	[205]
How to Cut a Pane of Glass	[205]
A Cutter for Glass Tubes	[207]
A Circular Glass Cutter	[208]
Kinds of Bunsen Burners	[210]
Bordering the End of a Tube	[211]
Sealing Off the End of a Tube	[212]
How to Make a Hole in a Tube	[212]
Welding Two Tubes Together. Making a T Tube	[213]
A Regular Blow-Pipe	[214]
Cross Section of a Home-made Blow-pipe	[215]
The Glass Blowing Arrangement Ready to Use	[216]
A Regular Foot Bellows	[217]
First Steps in Blowing a Glass Bulb	[218]
Making a Thick Ring of Glass	[218]
Last Step in Blowing a Glass Bulb	[219]
Part of the Apparatus for Sand Blast Etching	[220]
Sand Blast Apparatus Put Together Ready for Etching	[221]
Etching Glass with Acid	[223]
A Policeman’s Puzzle, or Now Will You Be Good	[228]
Plans for the Automobile Truck	[229]
The Automobile Truck Ready to Run	[230]
Plans for a Swell Coaster	[231]
The Coaster Ready to Ride On	[232]
Plans for the Nifty Wheelbarrow. The Barrow Ready toWheel	[234]
Plans for the High-low Swing	[236]
The Swing Ready to Swing Low, Swing High	[237]
Ride a Stick Horse to Banbury Cross	[238]
Plans for a Pony and Cart. The Pony and Cart When Done	[240]
How the Life-like Goose is Made	[241]
Goosie, Goosie Gander, Where Shall I Wander	[242]
The Dancing Sambo	[243]
The Mechanism of the Dancing Sambo	[244]
The Wireless Pup, the Slot in the Floor of the Dog House	[245]
The Back End of the Dog House	[246]
The Spanker with Electric Solenoid Control	[247]
Cross Section Side View of the Wireless Pup Ready for Action	[248]
The Front End View of the Wireless Pup House	[249]
When You Call the Wireless Pup or Clap Your Hands He Comes Out of His Dog House in a Hurry	[250]
The Musical Coin	[253]
How to Hold the Musical Coin to Spin It	[254]
The Chopin Tomato Can	[255]
The Musical Glasses	[257]
The Harp of a Thousand Thrills	[258]
How to Play the Harp	[259]
Parts of a Musical Push Pipe	[261]
How the Push Pipe is Played	[263]
A Xylophone. The Bars are Made of Wood	[264]
A Tubaphone. The Bars are Made of Metal Tubes	[265]
The Cathedral Chimes	[266]
The Harp of Aeolus	[268]
Plans for an Egyptian Fiddle	[271]
How the Bow is Made	[272]
How the Fiddle is Played	[273]
How an Easel is Made	[276]
First Principles of Cartooning	[278]
Three Simple Cartoons that You Can Do	[279]
The Oracle of Amor, or Are You in Love?	[280]
The Mystic Fountain	[282]
Making Hydrogen Chloride Gas	[283]
The Vicious Soap Bubbles	[285]
The Uncanny Wheel	[287]
The Electrified Papers	[291]
A Simple Wireless Demonstration Set	[294]
Cross Section of the Coherer Showing Its Construction	[295]
The Parts of the Hand Named According to Science	[296]
The Parts of the Hand Named According to Palmistry	[298]
Working Drawings for the Demonstration Steam Engine. Cross Section Side View of the Engine	[302]
End View of the Engine. The Crank Shaft. The Rocker Arm	[304]
Top View of the Engine	[306]
The Steam Engine Ready to Demonstrate	[309]

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HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS

CHAPTER I
CARPENTRY WORK AND CABINET MAKING

Did you ever think about what you’d do if you were shipwrecked on a tropical island like Robinson Crusoe?

Well, if you had a good, strong pocket-knife with you it wouldn’t be so terribly bad and in a few months’ time you’d have fashioned all the things you’d need to furnish a three-room palmetto bungalow.