The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . Fig. 27. Figs. 26 and 27. Parine. 30 PROFITABLE PASTIMES. Fig. 28. but will cut in under, as it cannot be guided as easilyas the firmer-chisel can, with both hands to hold it. Chamfering and Bevelling are somewhat similar opera-tions. They consist in cutting the edges of a piece of wood, as shown in Figs. 28and 29. The corner of a block ofwood is very often cham-, fered, when planing end- wood, to prevent the woodfrom splintering. It can only be done, of course, beforethe adjoining side has been planed up, that a squa


The boy craftsman; practical ad profitable ideas for a boy's leisure hours . Fig. 27. Figs. 26 and 27. Parine. 30 PROFITABLE PASTIMES. Fig. 28. but will cut in under, as it cannot be guided as easilyas the firmer-chisel can, with both hands to hold it. Chamfering and Bevelling are somewhat similar opera-tions. They consist in cutting the edges of a piece of wood, as shown in Figs. 28and 29. The corner of a block ofwood is very often cham-, fered, when planing end- wood, to prevent the woodfrom splintering. It can only be done, of course, beforethe adjoining side has been planed up, that a squarecorner can be obtained again when the work is finished. The Gouge is a chisel with a curved section, its usebeing for cutting grooves and curvatures in a piece ofwork where thechisel cannot beemployed. A Draw-knife isvery handy forquickly reducingthe size of materialand in roundingsticks. The blade is drawn toward you instead of beingpushed as in the case of a plane or chisel. Boring.— Probably the only trouble you will have withthe bit and bit-stock will be in holding the brace in aperfectly vertical position so as to bore


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