FIG. 1.
Now take another piece; square one end as nicely as possible (everything depends in this job on the neatness and accuracy of your work), measure seven and five eighths inches from squared end; cut off and square: you will have a stick seven and one half inches long. Make another like this from the piece left. These pieces we will mark A: they are the short uprights in diagram. Now cut two pieces twelve and one half inches long: square both ends; find exact middle, measure one fourth inch in each direction from middle and draw lines with square across the stick. Right and left on the side faces (not the one underneath), draw lines parallel with top face one fourth inch from it. These last lines show how deep you are to saw on the first two lines with cross-cut saw. With chisel remove the little piece one half by one half by one fourth. Take care not to cut the stick deeper than the lines indicate. The sticks will look like [fig. 1]. These are the cross bars, BB.
From another stick cut three pieces six inches long: square both ends; these are marked CCC; two belong to the back, and one for the front connecting CC. From short pieces left cut two pieces two and three fourths inches long, of course squaring the ends: these are DD, and go at side of front.
For uprights of back cut two pieces ten inches long: square ends. On a board or piece of paper mark on a line two points three and one half inches apart. From the right-hand point draw a perpendicular, the line connecting the two points being the base of a triangle. Lay one ten-inch stick from the left hand point to the perpendicular, making the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle. You will readily see how much of a bevel is required to make the lower end set firmly. It will probably be about one eighth of an inch; make the same bevel on the other ten-inch piece: these we will mark EE (the uprights for the back). Bevel the lower ends of the three-pointed sticks (the uprights for front) in the same way. (See base of [fig. 2].)
FIG. 2.
On one front upright, measure two and three fourths inches from point on face A: cut out bit one half by one half by one fourth as in piece B. Repeat at eight inches; again at ten and five eighths inches from point of stick. This completes middle upright.