These were sawed from a rough plank with the rip saw by using the chairs as trestles. A pencil line was laid out 31⁄4 inches from one edge, and the saw cut made directly on the line, 8 feet long.
The cross cut saw was used to cut the strip off and this strip was then sawed with the same saw into four pieces of equal length for the legs. Another strip 41⁄4 inches wide, 7 feet 8 inches long, was ripped out and taken off with the cross cut saw, for the body, and divided into two pieces 3 feet 10 inches long, for convenience in planing.
Harry now had his first real experience in planing. All the pieces were of 1-inch rough lumber, with sawed edges, and had to be planed down to 7⁄8 inch in thickness.
To plane six pieces of stock straight and true, with squared edges and of definite size, was no easy task.
"How do you like manual labour?" asked Ralph, mischievously.
"I like it all right," replied the perspiring boy, "but we won't need any gymnasium work for exercise while we are doing this."
Fig. 92. The trestle or saw horse. By permission of Carpentry and Building
"Wouldn't you like to make a bench in hard wood right away?" asked Ralph.