Correlated courses in woodwork and mechanical drawing

by Ira Samuel Griffith

The cabinet-making course is not to be considered as manual training per se. It is best to make it optional and more purely a trade course, tho the work may still be individual in its nature. An exercise in making a small door and one in the making of a drawer will introduce the student to the use of most of the machinery specified. These exercises should be detailed so as to involve stock of the same size for each boy. In this way the machines may be set and all the parts of similar kind run thru. Classes of considerable size may be taught with the use of the minimum of machinery. Each boy should, of course, be taught the setting of the various machines.

After these two exercises, with hinging and locking, the pupils may be allowed to work out pieces of their own choosing involving these elements, preparing their own stock, setting their machines, etc. In this way the “shop” practice, quantity or piece work, is obtained in the making of the exercises while the application later allows for the individuality of the pupil.

CHAPTER III.
CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF ELEMENTS OF MECHANICAL DRAWING FOR GRADES 7, 8, AND 9.

MECHANICAL DRAWING

GRADE VII.

Time: 2¹⁄₂ hours per week for 12 weeks.

Lesson I.
Principles	Applications
Straight lines (Use of instruments) Angles Lettering	Introductory Sheet
Lesson II.
Order of Procedure Relation of Views Blocking out Simple Dimensioning Scale	Woodwork Group I.
Lesson III.
Foreshortening	Woodwork Group II.
Lesson IV.
Geometric Construction— Circles, Hexagon, Octagon Ellipse	Geometric Construction Sheet
Lesson V.
Hidden edges	Woodwork Group III.
Lesson VI.
Center lines Tangents Points of tangency Cross-sections	Woodwork Group IV.
Lesson VII.
Working Drawings Representing screws and nails Broken views	Woodwork Group V.
Lesson VIII.
Working Drawings (continued) Representing screws and nails Broken views	Woodwork Group V.
Lesson IX.
Stock Bills	Woodwork Group V.
Lesson X.
Figuring costs	Woodwork Groups I-V.
Lesson XI.
Appreciation in Design Structural, Decorative	Woodwork Group VI.
Lesson XII.
Templet or patterns	Woodwork Group VI.

GRADE VIII.

(Time: 2¹⁄₂ hours per week for 12 weeks.)

Lesson I.
Principles reviewed	Projects or Problems
Straight lines	Bennett’s “Problems in Mechanical Drawing” (Freehand sketches followed by mechanical drawings.) Group I.
Lesson II.
Circles	“Problems in Mechanical Drawing” Group II.
Lesson III.
Tangents	“Problems in Mechanical Drawing” Group III.
Lesson IV.
Planes of projection	“Problems in Mechanical Drawing” Group IV.
Lesson V.
Review Test problems	“Problems in Mechanical Drawing”
Lesson VI.
Working Drawings	Woodwork Group VII.
Lesson VII.
Working Drawings	Woodwork Group VIII.
Lesson VIII.
Working Drawings	Woodwork Groups VII and VIII.
Lesson IX.
Stock Bills	Woodwork Groups VII and VIII.
Lesson X.
Figuring costs	Woodwork Groups VII and VIII.
Lesson XI.
Design—Structural, Decorative	Woodwork Groups VII or VIII. (one piece)
Lesson XII.
Templet or patterns, Working drawing, stock bill and cost.	Based on Lesson XI above.