No. 10. Pen Rest.
(Requiring [Exercises] 5, 8, 9, 10, 20, 1, 2, 18, and 13.)
Cut from Beech a piece 5 in. long, 1 in. wide, and 3⁄4 in. thick. Plane one side and one edge at right angles, then gauge and plane to thickness and height, as shown in Fig. 2 of [drawings No. 10], but flat on all sides. Saw across both ends at right angles, so as to reduce the length to 31⁄2 in. Select one edge as the top, and, with the square, rule a central line from e to e, and a line across at each of the places marked a, b, c, and d in Fig. 1, continuing each line down both sides. Then, at each end, mark the central place represented by the dot in Fig. 2. From each of those central places describe the semicircle shown at top of Fig. 2. Then mark a line from end to end on each side half way between the top and the bottom.
Then, with the knife, and working to the semicircle at each end, take off the corners of the top, so making half an octagon, and, by taking off the corners of the half octagon, produce a top corresponding to the semicircle at each end, as shown in Fig. 2, taking care that the top of the semicircle throughout centres to the line previously drawn from e to e. Then, with the tenon saw, at each of the places marked a, b, c, and d, saw across a right angle slit 3⁄16 in. deep. Then, with the knife or a chisel, cut out the space shown in Fig. 1 from a to b and from c to d, taking care that the side of each space is true and square. Then, with the file, round each base as shown at the top of the shaded section in Fig. 2. Then smooth with the file where required, and finish with sand-paper.
