In buying stock, select the best pine for all portions that will show. Get the stock well planed and smooth it down.
If made by a carpenter, twenty-five dollars would be the smallest payable price for a good job, so that the price named is not at all excessive for a really good thing.
This case being somewhat elaborate is intended both in design and instructions here given, for those boys who have a fair knowledge of construction, and some ideas as to the best way to set about it; and it must be borne in mind although pine is soft and easily worked, it is also easily soiled and injured by tool marks more readily than the harder woods.
The general schedule of material and cost given below will be found useful in buying.
SCHEDULE OF COSTS, ETC.
| 50 feet, ⅞ inch pine,} at 6c per foot, 25 "½""} | $4.50 |
| Sawing, if done at a mill, about | 1.50 |
| Finishing and filling the wood in four coats, about 1 quart of shellac, etc., | 1.50 |
| Hardware, locks, hinges, drawers, pulls, etc., etc., | 1.50 |
| Glass for doors, | .50 |
| Cork, paper, glue, etc., about | 1.50 |
| ——— | |
| Total, | $11.00 |
A PORTABLE HOUSE.