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Handicraft for boys

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A practical manual aimed at young readers that teaches woodworking, metalworking, carving, pyrography, scroll sawing, lathe work, Venetian iron, pewter casting, engraving, drafting, photography, printing, bookbinding, rubber-stamp and badge making, glass cutting, and related crafts. It lists necessary tools, explains techniques and tool sharpening, and demonstrates step-by-step project plans with diagrams and illustrations. The text also covers joints, seams, soldering, finishing, and safety, plus simple home-made appliances for hobby use. Emphasis is on learning hands-on skills, developing hand–eye coordination and problem-solving, and producing durable, attractive projects as engaging pastimes.

INDEX

  • Acid etching on glass, 222
  • Aeolian harp, 267
  • Alcohol lamp, 52, 60, 209
  • How to make an, 52
  • Alloys:
  • Brass, 67
  • Pewter, 66, 68, 93
  • Solders, 66, 72
  • Type metal, 66, 68
  • Useful, 67
  • Aluminum, 67
  • Arkansas carving tool slip, 46
  • Art of working glass, 202
  • Auger bits, carpenter’s 6, 13
  • Automobile truck, to make an, 228
  • Badges, how to make, 192-196
  • Barnum, P. T., 295
  • Bellows for blow pipe, 217
  • Bench, how to make a carpenter’s, 20.
  • Bent iron work, Venetian. See Venetian bent iron work
  • Bismuth, 95
  • Blow pipe for glass blowing, 214
  • Blue prints, how to make, 131
  • Bluing steel, 74
  • Brass, 74
  • Bohemian glass, 203
  • Bolts and rivets, 72
  • Bookbinding, 179-181
  • “Book of Electricity,” 290
  • “Book of Wireless,” 295
  • Brace and bits, carpenter’s, 6, 9
  • Brass, 67
  • How to blue, 74
  • To color, 74
  • To dull, 74
  • To frost, 75
  • Stencils, 198-200
  • Bromide photo paper, 142
  • Bunsen burner, 60, 209
  • Burning brand, how to make a, 196
  • Cabinet making, 1-23
  • Calipers, spring, 57, 62
  • Cameras, 135-140
  • Camouflage photographs, 154
  • Candle shade, pierced brass, 91
  • Candlestick, how to make a repoussé, 87
  • Carbon dioxide gas, how to make, 287
  • Carbon impressions, 123
  • Carborundum oil stone, 63
  • Cards for printing, 175
  • Caricature photographs, 155
  • Carpenter’s tools:
  • Brace and auger bits, 6, 9
  • Chisels, 4, 9
  • Gimlets, 6, 11
  • Gouges, 4, 9
  • Hammer, 2, 8
  • How to sharpen, 12, 13
  • How to use, 8-12
  • Liquid glue, 7, 11
  • Mallet, 2
  • Miter box, 4
  • Nail set, 6, 10
  • Oil can, 7
  • Planes, 4, 9
  • Rule, 6, 10
  • Saws, 2, 8
  • Screw drivers, 6
  • Screws, 6, 10, 11
  • To etch your name on, 14
  • To remove rust from, 14
  • Try-square, 6
  • Washita oil-stone, 7
  • Carpenter’s work bench, how to make a, 20
  • Tool chest, 22
  • Carpentry work, 1-23
  • Woods for, 15-17
  • Cartoons, 275-278
  • Carver’s washita oil stone, 46
  • Carving tool slip, 46
  • Carving wood, 24, 44-51
  • Casting pewter, 93, 97
  • Cathedral chimes, 268
  • Cellulose, 176
  • Cement for glass, 224
  • Center punch, machinist’s, 57, 61
  • Chase, putting type in use, 170
  • Chemistry, 280
  • Chest, how to make a tool, 22
  • Chimes, Cathedral, 265
  • Chip carving, 47
  • Chisels, 4, 9
  • Circle, how to draw a, 119
  • Clamps, carpenter’s, 6;
  • wood carver’s, 46
  • Cleaning metals, 89
  • Coaster, to make a, 231
  • Coins, musical, 253
  • Coherer, to make a, 294
  • Colored glass, 203
  • Coloring metals, 73, 74, 81;
  • wood, 54
  • Colors, printing in, 174;
  • stencil, 201
  • Companion wood turning lathe, 37
  • Compasses for drawing, 112
  • Composing stand, 167;
  • stick, 162-169
  • Contact printing, photo, 132
  • Copper, 66
  • Copygraph, how to make and use, 189-191
  • Cricket scroll saw, 30
  • Cutting pliers, 57, 60
  • Dancing Sambo, to make a, 243
  • Dark room, 136
  • Dead black for iron, a, 81
  • Decalcomania, 128
  • Decorative stencils, 199-201
  • Design, how to burn in a, 53
  • Design on wood, how to trace a, 29
  • Designs for scroll sawing, 30
  • For Venetian bent iron work, 96
  • Developer for dry plates, 137
  • for bromide paper, 143
  • Diamond glass cutters, 203
  • Die sinking, 192, 193
  • Dies, screw cutting taps and, 57, 62
  • Dividers:
  • Spring, 57, 61
  • For drawing, 112
  • Disston saws, 2
  • Drawing:
  • Free-hand, 103
  • Life models, 104
  • Still life, 104, 107
  • Human figure, 105-108
  • Perspective, 108
  • How to find vanishing point, 109-111
  • How to shade, 111
  • Isometric perspective ellipse, 118
  • Circle, 119
  • Spiral, 120
  • Plain ellipse, 121
  • With a pantagraph, 121
  • Cartoons, 275
  • Drawings:
  • For carpentry work, 19
  • For metal work, 68
  • Working, 111
  • Isometric perspective, 116
  • Tracings of, 124
  • Drawing board, 113
  • Reflecting, 123
  • Drawing paper, 113
  • Drawing tools, 112, 113
  • Drill attachment for scroll saw, 33
  • Drill stock, 57, 60
  • Twist, 28
  • Drills, Morse twist, 57, 61
  • Dry plates, 136, 137
  • For lantern slides, 151
  • Easel, how to make an, 276
  • Ebony stain for wood, 55
  • Egg boiler, Venetian iron, 79
  • Egyptian rebec, 269
  • Electrical evening, an, 290
  • Electrical experiments, 292
  • Electricity:
  • Demonstrating without apparatus, 290
  • Static, 291
  • Induction or spark coil, 292
  • Electrified papers, 290
  • Electrify a person, how to, 292
  • Ellipse, how to draw an, 118, 121
  • Engraver’s wax, 101
  • Engraving on metal, 99
  • Engraving tools, 99
  • Engine building for boys, 301
  • Enlarging apparatus, photo, 140
  • Entertainments, 274
  • Cartoons, 276
  • Chemistry, 280
  • Travelogue, 287
  • Electricity, 290
  • Wireless telegraphy, 293
  • Palmistry, 295
  • Steam engine, 300
  • Etching glass, 219, 222
  • Etching tool, how to make an, 52
  • Etching your name on tools, 14
  • Excelsior printing presses, 158
  • Experiments in chemistry, 280
  • In electricity, 290
  • Fahrenheit thermometer scale, 65
  • Fiddle, an Egyptian, 269
  • Files: for scroll sawyers, 28
  • For machinists, 57, 62
  • Figure carving, 51
  • Finger and hand prints, 125
  • Fixing bath, how to make a, 134
  • Flint glass, 203
  • Fluxes, for soldering, 71
  • Fret sawing, See Scroll sawing
  • Fumed oak, 55
  • Gimlets, carpenter’s, 6, 11
  • Glass:
  • Art of working, 202-226
  • How made, 202
  • How to cut, 203
  • To drill holes in, 206
  • Blow pipe for, 214, 215
  • Bellows for, 217
  • How to etch, 219, 222
  • To make ground, 222
  • To cement, 224
  • To frost, 224
  • Substitutes for, 225
  • To silver, 226
  • Glass bulb, how to blow a, 215
  • Glass cutters, 203, 204, 208
  • Glass disks, how to cut, 208
  • Glass edges, to finish off, 206
  • Glass nozzle, how to make, 212
  • Glass tubing, how to cut, 207
  • To bend, 209
  • To round the ends of, 211
  • To seal, 211
  • To pierce, 213
  • To join, 213
  • Glasses, musical, 253
  • Glue, how to make and use, 11
  • Glue pot, how to make a, 11
  • Gold, printing in, 175
  • Goodyear Rubber Co., 183
  • Goose, to make a life-like, 241
  • Gouges, carpenter’s, 4
  • Graflex camera, 140
  • Gravers, 99
  • Ground glass, to make, 222
  • Gutenburg, Johanne, 157
  • Hack saw, 57, 60
  • Hammers, carpenter’s, 2, 8
  • Scroll sawyers, 29
  • Machinist’s, 57, 60
  • Hand, parts of the human, 298
  • Hand and finger prints, 125
  • Hand inlaid printing presses, 157
  • Hand made paper, 176
  • Hand saws, carpenter’s, 2
  • Hand screws, carpenter’s, 6, 10
  • Hand scroll saw table, 27
  • Hardware for scroll sawyers, 37
  • Harp, the tubular, 258
  • Hectograph, See Copygraph
  • Hershel, Sir John, 153
  • Horse, how to make a stick, 237
  • Hieroglyphics, 202
  • Hydrogen chloride gas, how to make, 283
  • Imposing stone, 120
  • Ink:
  • India, 113
  • Printing, 173
  • For rubber stamp, 189
  • For copygraph, 191
  • For stencils, 200
  • Ink rollers, 173
  • Ink pads for rubber stamps, 188
  • “Inventing for Boys,” 119
  • Iron:
  • Wrought, 64
  • Steel, 64
  • How to color a dead black, 81
  • Iron work, Venetian bent, See Venetian bent iron work
  • Isometric perspective drawings, 116
  • Ellipses, 118
  • Isometric ruled paper, 116
  • Jeweler’s saw frame, 57
  • Saws, 60
  • Jig sawing, See Scroll sawing
  • Job printing, 172
  • Joining, See Carpentry
  • Joints, edge and corner, wood, 17
  • Metal, 70
  • Justifying, 169
  • Kodaks, 139
  • Lacquer, how to make and use, 75
  • Lantern slides, 139, 150, 151
  • Lathe for wood turners, 37
  • Lead, 65, 93
  • Lead glass, 203
  • Lead pencils for drawing, 113
  • Lenses, photo, 140
  • Lignum vitae mallets, 46
  • Magic fountain, 281
  • Magic lantern, how to make and operate, 148-150
  • Magic photographs, 153
  • Magic of science, 209
  • Mallet, carpenter’s, 2
  • Machinist’s tools, See Metal working tools
  • Markers for wood carvers, 46
  • Marking gauge, carpenter’s, 6, 10
  • Metal, engraving, 99
  • Metals:
  • Their uses, 64
  • How to solder, 71
  • Iron, 64
  • Tin, 64
  • Lead, 65
  • Zinc, 65
  • Copper, 66
  • Type-metal, 66, 68
  • Brass, 67
  • Aluminum, 67
  • Pewter, 68, 94
  • Bismuth, 95
  • Metal work:
  • Tools for, 57-63
  • Drawing plans for, 68
  • Sheet, 69
  • Seams and joints, 70
  • Bolts and rivets for, 72
  • Solders for, 72
  • Bending, 73
  • Coloring, 73-83
  • Cleaning and polishing, 89
  • Pierced, 90
  • Miter box, 4
  • Molds:
  • For casting pewter, 97
  • For paper making, 177
  • For rubber stamps, 185
  • “Money Making for Boys,” 157
  • Moresco stencil color, 201
  • Morse twist drills, 57, 61
  • Mounting rubber stamps, 188
  • Musical instruments, home-made:
  • Coins, 253, 254
  • Tomato cans, 254-256
  • Glasses, 256, 257
  • Tubular harp, 258-260
  • Push pipe, 260-262
  • Xylophone, 263, 264
  • Tubaphone, 264, 265
  • Cathedral chimes, 265-267
  • Aeolian harp, 267-269
  • Egyptian fiddle, 269-273
  • Mystic glass of milk, 280
  • Nail set, carpenter’s, 6, 10
  • Nails and screws, how to drive, 11
  • Nitrogen lamps, 141
  • Oil can, carpenter’s, 7
  • Oil stone, carpenter’s, 7
  • Machinist’s, 63
  • Palmistry for fun, 295-297
  • Panel carving, 50
  • Pantagraph, to make and use a, 121
  • Paper:
  • Blue print, 132
  • Photographic, 133, 142
  • For job printing, 175
  • Paper making, 176-179
  • Paper stencils, 198
  • Patter, 277
  • Pattern making, 95
  • Perspective, see Drawing
  • Pewter, 66
  • How to make, 94
  • To work, 95
  • To cast, 95
  • Solder for, 95
  • Patterns for, 95
  • To make a mold for, 97
  • Pewter ware, finishing, 98
  • Photo frame, a repoussé, 88
  • Photography:
  • Blue prints, 131
  • Contact printing, 132
  • Silver prints, 133
  • Papers, 133
  • Fixing bath, 133
  • Toning solution, 134
  • Dark room, 136
  • Developer, 137
  • Dry plates, 137
  • Cameras, 138-140
  • Lenses, 140
  • Enlargements, 140-144
  • Radium, 151
  • Skiagraphs, 151
  • Trick, 153
  • Camouflage, 154
  • Caricature, 155
  • Pierced metal work, 90-93
  • Planes, carpenter’s, 4, 9, 12
  • Plaster of Paris, 184
  • Plate holder, a Venetian iron, 81
  • Pliers for scroll sawyers, 28
  • Policeman’s puzzle, to make a, 227
  • Polishing metal work, 89
  • German silver, 195
  • Pony and cart, to make a, 239
  • Post card store, 289
  • Press, See Printing press
  • Printing:
  • Kinds of presses, 157
  • Outfit needed, 161
  • Composing stick, 162, 169
  • Composing stand, 167
  • Imposing stone, 169
  • Chase for press, 169
  • Making ready, 172
  • Ink, 173
  • Ink rollers, 174
  • In colors, 174
  • In gold, 175
  • Stock supply, 175
  • See also Type
  • Printing presses:
  • Kinds, 157, 158
  • Sizes and prices, 160
  • How worked, 160
  • Prints, photo, 133
  • Protractors for drawing, 113
  • Pulp for paper, 176
  • Push pipe, musical, 260
  • Pyrography, 51-53
  • Radioactive substances, 152
  • Radiographs, 152
  • Radium photographs, 151
  • Rag engine, 177
  • Reflecting drawing board, 123
  • Reflectoscope, 145-147
  • Repoussé work, 84-88
  • Rivets and bolts, 72
  • Robinson Crusoe, 1
  • Rosin for fiddle bows, 273
  • Rubber stamps:
  • How to make and use, 183-188
  • Ink pads, 188
  • Inks, 189
  • Rule, carpenter’s, 6, 10
  • Ruling pens for drawing, 112
  • Russel Jennings’ auger bits, 6
  • Rust on tools, removing, 14
  • Sand blast process, 219
  • Saw:
  • Carpenter’s, 2, 8, 12
  • Disston, 2
  • Hack, 57
  • Jeweler’s, 57, 60
  • Sconce, a Venetian iron, 82
  • Screw cutting taps and dies, 57, 62
  • Screw drivers:
  • Carpenter’s, 6
  • Machinist’s, 60, 63
  • Screws, how to drive, 11
  • Scroll sawing, 24-37
  • Designs for, 29, 30
  • Woods to use, 36
  • Scroll saws:
  • Hand, 25
  • Foot-power, 30-35
  • Cricket, 30
  • Lester, 32
  • Fleetwood, 33
  • Scroll sawyer’s tools, 27-29
  • Designs, 30
  • Hardware, 37
  • Seams in metal work, 70
  • Self-inking printing presses, 158
  • Sharpening tools, 63
  • Shellac varnish, 96, 197
  • Shears, tinner’s, 57, 60
  • Sheet metal work, See Metal work, 70
  • Silhouettes, 126
  • Silvering glass, 226
  • Silver prints, photo, 133
  • Sketching, see Drawing
  • Skiagraphs, 151
  • Snibs for wood carvers, 46
  • Soap bubbles, vicious, 284
  • Soirée, a, 274
  • Solder, 60, 66, 72
  • Soldering metals, 71
  • Spark coil, 292
  • Spirit photographs, 153
  • Spinning coins, Virgil’s theory of, 254
  • Spiral, how to draw a, 120
  • Staining wood, 54, 55
  • Stanley planes, 4
  • Steam engine, 300-310
  • Steel, 64
  • How to blue, 74
  • Letters and figures, 193
  • Glass cutters, 203
  • Steel rule, machinist’s, 57, 61
  • Steel square, machinist’s, 57, 61
  • Stencils, 198-201
  • Stencil inks, how to make, 200, 201
  • Stereoscope, 289
  • Stereographs, 289
  • Stereopticon, 151
  • Stradivari, Antonio, 270
  • Swing, to make a, 235
  • Taps and dies, screw cutting, 57, 62
  • Thermometer scale, Fahrenheit, 65
  • Theory of spinning coins, 254
  • Thumb tacks, 113
  • Tin, 65
  • Tin-foil, 65
  • Turner’s snips, 57, 60, 63
  • Toaster, a Venetian iron, 78
  • Tomato cans, musical, 255
  • Toning photo prints, 133, 134
  • Tool chest, how to make a, 22
  • Tools:
  • Carpenter’s, see Carpenter’s tools
  • Woodworking, 2
  • Wood turning, 40
  • Metal working, 57-63
  • Venetian bent iron work, 76
  • Repoussé work, 84
  • Engraving, 99
  • Drawing, 112
  • Toys, how to make:
  • Policeman’s puzzle, 227
  • Automobile truck, 228
  • Wheelbarrow, 231
  • Coaster, 231
  • Swing, 235
  • Stick horse, 237
  • Pony and cart, 239
  • Goose, 241
  • Dancing Sambo, 243
  • Wireless pup, 245
  • Tracings, how to make, 124
  • Transfer pictures, 128
  • Travelogue, giving a, 287
  • Triangle for drawing, 113
  • Trick photography, 153
  • Try square, carpenter’s, 6
  • T square for drawing, 113
  • T tube, how to make, 213
  • Tubaphone, the peculiar, 264
  • Turning lathe, scroll saw, 33
  • Turning wood, 24, 37, 41-43
  • Turning tools for wood, 40
  • Type:
  • Styles of, 163-166
  • Cases, 167
  • How to set, 169
  • How to distribute, 173
  • How to clean, 173
  • See also Printing
  • Type form, how to lock up, 171
  • Type-metal, 66
  • Uncanny wheel, 286
  • Venetian bent iron work, 76-84
  • Toaster, 78
  • Egg boiler, 79
  • Plate holder, 81
  • Vulcanizing rubber, 186, 187
  • Vise, carpenter’s, 21
  • Wood carver’s, 46
  • Machinist’s, 60
  • Washita oil-stone for carpenters, 7
  • For carvers, 46
  • Washita slip stone, 13
  • Watch holder, how to carve a, 48
  • Wheelbarrow, to make a nifty, 233
  • Wireless pup, to make a, 245
  • Wireless set, to make a, 293
  • Wireless telegraphy, demonstrating, 293
  • Wood:
  • How to turn, 41
  • Coloring and staining, 54, 55
  • Wood burning, 24
  • See also Pyrography
  • Wood carver’s tools, 44-46
  • Wood carving, 24, 44-51
  • Wood filler, how to make, 11
  • Wood turning, 24, 37
  • Lathe for, 37-40
  • Tools, 40, 41
  • Woods:
  • For carpentry, 15
  • For scroll sawing, 36
  • For carving, 47
  • Woodworking joints, 17
  • Woodworking tools, See Carpenter’s tools
  • Work bench, how to make a, 20
  • Working drawings:
  • For carpentry, 18
  • How to make plan, 115
  • Isometric perspective, 116
  • See also Drawings
  • Xylophone, curious, 263
  • Zinc, 65