The Boy Craftsman

ch a boy can do, besides many ingenious articles for the house which he can make in his workshop. Ideas for labor-saving devices which cannot be bought upon the mark

which to carry your tools, and a nail-box (Fig. 18) for nails, screws, hinges, and s

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e you plenty of material to work upon when you open up your carpenter-shop. Besides these ideas, you will find most of the

at can be had, for it can be so placed as to allow the window to be opened

inches above the centre sash-bar, according to the di

neither sash can be opened past the hinge; but when the hinge is

isfactory it is. As the hinges cost but a few cents a pair, and are put on very qui

rticle no housekeeper should be without. Its use does

amounts to almost nothing, the manufacture of these time-s

A Clothes

des, and two pieces of broom-handles sixteen inches long for the horizontal rods (see Fig.

the holes bored for them, and fastening them so the side-pieces are nine inches apart and a handle five inches long projects

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rticle for the kitchen or broom-closet

ree inches wide, and be made out of a seven-eighths-inch board. Bevel the edges and place four

hat by so doing the straws are kept from becoming brittle and the broom lasts much longer. The brooms should therefore

ld be screwed

.-A Fly

nemies to the house-fly, but none a

about four by five inches, stuck into a slot made in the end of a stick, and fastened i

ong the front edge, and trim the roughness

p by a screw-eye placed

.-An As

y of killing it. As the screen-wire is not easily seen by the fly, and

you show your customer how effective they are

own in Fig. 48. It is made out of a packing-case about three

hrough the shed wall and end of the box, as shown at AB, for the removal of ashes. Two strips are nailed to the sides of the box (seven inches below the top) for tracks for the sifter to run upon, and below this, at

9.-The

inch wire-mesh for the bottom (see Fig. 49) Fasten four trunk-casters, such as are shown in Fig. 50, to the bottom of the

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ghteen inches, with the surface planed perfectly smooth and the edges bevelled or

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tion of a rack of three shelves, and in size three feet long and two feet ten inches high. Although the des

.-A Pla

shelf A and two in shelves B and C, for the edges of plates to stand in. These grooves are cut with a chisel, and should be made V-shaped as shown. Narrow strips of wood may be nailed

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the surface of the wood. Fasten the bottom shelf (C) between the side-pieces seven inches above the bottom, the middle shelf (B) ten inches above that, and the top shelf (A) nine in

rack (as shown in the drawing) for the tops of the plates to rest against. Two holes should

rack with a stain which will harmonize with the