. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. who are fond of making articles to helpfurnish the garden. The work is simpe, fewtools are required, and the material is inex-pensive. It is, however, essential that good,sound joints be made. By carefully followingthe instructions given below the skill will beacquired with very little practice. Those whohave not attemped Bamboo-work before areadvised to practise first on a spare piece ofBamVjoo to properly acquire the art of jointing;it is more economical than starting directly onto a piece of furni
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. who are fond of making articles to helpfurnish the garden. The work is simpe, fewtools are required, and the material is inex-pensive. It is, however, essential that good,sound joints be made. By carefully followingthe instructions given below the skill will beacquired with very little practice. Those whohave not attemped Bamboo-work before areadvised to practise first on a spare piece ofBamVjoo to properly acquire the art of jointing;it is more economical than starting directly onto a piece of furniture and running the chance ofspoiling parts of it in gaining experience. Thedesign given in tig. 12), is purposely pain,and of such stability as to stand rough tools required are chiefly a fine-toothed saw,a brace and two bits, a rasp, hammer, and apocket-knife; a glue-pot and good glue, so neodd pieces of hard wood for plugging the joints,as will be shown, and a few wire panel pins willalso be required. The latter have butt-shapedheads, and can be purchased at any Fig. 123—a bamboo fiARDEN SEAT AND DETAILSSHOWING COXSIIirCTION OF SA5IE. a good joint, one that is known as a doweljoint, and illu3trated in fig. 123,=. The piecemarked A represents a leg, and b a horizontal railwhich it is required to join to A. The end of therail B is first rapped out to nearly a semi-circularshape to fit neatly against the leg A, and anypith found inside the Bamboo is to be scrapedout with the knife. Now get a piece of wood(hard in preference) G inches long that will fittightly in the Bamboo (b) without having to useforce to get it in. Leave it in temporarily whilstcutting a hole in the upright A that will justtake this wood plug. The hole is cut with acentrebit, working it to and fro to avoid anypossibility of splitting the cane. Again scrapeout the pith and roughen the immediate surfaceround the hole with the rasp, as represented by thedots. Now take the wooilen pin a
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