The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . aced in the vise and the other rested upon a peg stuckin a hole bored in the side of the bench. For boardsof different lengths, several holes should be bored, asshown in the illustration of the finished bench (seefrontispiece), and a movable peg cut to fit in them. A Bench-stop of some sort fastened to the top ofthe bench will be found useful to push work againstwhile planing it, when it is not convenient to use thevise. Figures 6, 7, and 8 show the forms of stops mostcommonly used by carpenters. Of these the metal st
The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . aced in the vise and the other rested upon a peg stuckin a hole bored in the side of the bench. For boardsof different lengths, several holes should be bored, asshown in the illustration of the finished bench (seefrontispiece), and a movable peg cut to fit in them. A Bench-stop of some sort fastened to the top ofthe bench will be found useful to push work againstwhile planing it, when it is not convenient to use thevise. Figures 6, 7, and 8 show the forms of stops mostcommonly used by carpenters. Of these the metal stopshown in Fig. 6 is the most satisfactory, as it can beadjusted to different heights. It costs but little and iseasily put in place. A mortise is made in the top ofthe bench to receive the lower portion of the stop, andthe plate A is set flush with the bench-top and held in PROFITABLE PASTIMES place with screws driven into the holes in the centre of this plate {B) is detached from the restand mounted upon a small post, which can be adjusted ?Bird5_PlouvhCut. Fig. 7. Fig. 8. Some Forms of Bench-stops. to the desired height by giving the screw at C a fewturns with the screw-driver. The teeth in the edge ofB help to hold the work in position. One of the simplest forms of stops is shown in Fig. consists of two screws placed in the top of thebench, which can be raised or lowered with the screw-driver to the height you desire. The stop shown in Fig. 8 is made out of a block ofwood with a birds mouth cut in one side. It shouldbe nailed to one end of the bench in such a position thatthe end of the work can be placed in the birds mouth. While most of your work will be done on the bench,and a good portion of sawing done with the wood inthe vise, large pieces, especially long boards, are gener-ally sawn while placed across horses. A BOYS WORKSHOP
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