The playwork book . can be made from six to twelve incheslong, and in soft wood. Let your block ofwood be about four times its width, rough-ly speaking. Rule a line up to center ofyour block to mark the keel and cut awayfrom this with a very sharp knife to thecurving outlines of the deck which must bedrawn on the top side of the block. Itwould be impossible, in the space allowedfor diagrams, to give details for modellingthe body of the boat, but any boy can shapeit if he is careful and observes, from pic-tures or actual boats or models, how to doit. When the body of the vessel is shapedand smo
The playwork book . can be made from six to twelve incheslong, and in soft wood. Let your block ofwood be about four times its width, rough-ly speaking. Rule a line up to center ofyour block to mark the keel and cut awayfrom this with a very sharp knife to thecurving outlines of the deck which must bedrawn on the top side of the block. Itwould be impossible, in the space allowedfor diagrams, to give details for modellingthe body of the boat, but any boy can shapeit if he is careful and observes, from pic-tures or actual boats or models, how to doit. When the body of the vessel is shapedand smoothed down with a file and sand- A SHIP 115 paper, take a piece of heavy thick wire, andbend it at either end and sharpen the endsinto points with a file and hammer it intothe keel; or, if preferred, a deep groovemay be cut with a gouge and a strip of leadinserted. The rudder suggested here canbe made either of wood, or of a doublepiece of tin with a piece of thick wire ham-mered in at the fold and left with one end. SHO#^ TrttSTfeRM or XHt SHIPNl/lTH ftuOPtR TWl«<To Ortt Slot
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