Now to return to pieces EE. On a board or paper mark in line three points three and one half inches apart. Hold beveled end of pointed upright on point one, so that a point Y ten inches from bevel will be perpendicular to point two. Stand bevel end of E on point three, so that the other end will rest against point Y. You will then see the bevel needed on upper end of E to make it fit against point Y. It will be about an inch long.
FIG. 3.
Treat the other E in the same way, taking care that both bevels start from same face of stick. Square end of new stick: cut off six inches and square again. At point three inches from end cut out bit one half by one half by one fourth, as in B. This is the stick F.
Cut two sticks ten inches long: square ends. These are GG.
The pieces are all cut out; now of course you had more whitewood than these measures, but it is so cheap it seemed best to allow for mistakes, and the spoiling of two or three sticks in cutting bevels, etc. The bits left always come handy.
In putting the parts together you must be very careful. You will need some one-inch brads and some seven-sixteenths or three eighth ones also, and about two feet of brass spring wire, two French screws one inch long (slim ones), and two five eighths inch ones.
Take first the pointed piece for the middle of front: the one with the squares cut out of it: fit one of the B’s into the upper place and the other into the lower one. Put piece F into the middle slot; put two brads through each piece (BBF) and into the pointed one. Turn the whole over so the face A is down.
Take two pieces marked A; with inch-brads fasten pieces D endwise, so that upper face of D will be two and one eighth inches from end of A.