Fig. 7.
Take now a piece of board one foot wide, fifteen inches long and one inch thick (Fig. 7). Find the centre by connecting B and C and A and D by straight lines. The place where they cross, E, will be the centre. This board should be placed lengthways upon the cross bars of the front portion of your sleigh and should be fixed very securely in position with long screws. It should be at A in the completed sleigh, Fig. 13. Now for the long board upon which you sit, the board that connects the two pairs of runners, the board marked B in the completed sleigh, Fig. 13. Its width is sixteen inches, its length 7½ feet, its thickness 1½ inches. It is known as the reach board and should be of seasoned pine. This board is represented in Fig. 8. Fix your compass at A and describe a semi-circle, and then at B. A and B are each seven inches from the end of the board and seven inches from the sides. By the aid of these lines you will be able to give your board rounded ends as in Fig. 9.
Fig. 8.
Fig. 9.
Fig. 10.
