Handicraft for boys

About this book

Handicraft for boys by A. Frederick Collins.

Contents

• HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS6
• A WORD TO THE BOY9
• ILLUSTRATIONS20
• CHAPTER I CARPENTRY WORK AND CABINET MAKING28
• The Tools You Need.28
• The Kind of Tools.28
• Some Hints on Using Tools.34
• How to Hold a Hammer.34
• How to Use a Saw.34
• How to Use a Plane.34
• How to Use Chisels and Gouges.35
• How to Use a Brace and Bit.35
• How to Use a Rule.35
• How to Use a Marking Gauge.35
• How to Use Hand Screws or Clamps.35
• How to Use a Nail Set.35
• How to Use a Gimlet.36
• How to Drive Nails and Screws.36
• How to Make a Glue-Pot.36
• How to Make Good Glue and How to Use It.36
• How to Sharpen Your Tools.36
• About Sharpening Saws.36
• About Sharpening Chisels and Plane Bits.37
• About Sharpening Auger Bits.37
• How to Take Care of Your Tools.37
• Removing Rust from Tools.37
• To Etch Your Name on Tools.37
• Kinds of Wood to Use.38
• Pine.38
• Cedar.38
• Mahogany.38
• Oak.39
• Birch.39
• Walnut.39
• How to Make Joints.39
• Edge Joints.40
• Corner Joints.40
• About Working Drawings.41
• Things for You to Make.42
• How to Make a Work Bench.42
• How to Make a Tool Chest.44
• CHAPTER II SCROLL SAWING, WOOD TURNING, WOOD CARVING, ETC.46
• All About Scroll Sawing46
• Scroll Sawing Outfits.46
• A Cheap Scroll Sawing Outfit.47
• A Few Other Helpful Things.49
• How to Trace a Design on Wood.51
• Designs for Scroll Sawing.52
• Foot-Power Scroll Saws.52
• How a Foot-Power Scroll Saw Works.59
• How to Saw on a Foot-Power Scroll Saw.59
• TABLE OF SCROLL SAW WOODS59
• Fancy Woods for Scroll Saw Work.60
• Trimmings for Boxes, Etc.60
• Turning in Wood60
• Get a Lathe First.61
• The Cheapest Lathe You Can Buy.64
• Turning Tools for Wood.64
• How to Turn Wood.65
• The Art of Wood Carving68
• Your Set of Carving Tools.68
• The Best Woods for Carving.71
• Kinds of Wood Carving.71
• Pyrography, or Wood Burning75
• The Necessary Tools.75
• Coloring and Staining Wood.77
• CHAPTER III METALS AND METAL WORKING78
• Your Kit of Tools.78
• The Various Kinds of Tools.78
• Some Hints on Using the Tools.82
• About Sharpening Tools.84
• Metals and their Uses.84
• Iron.84
• Tin.85
• Zinc.85
• Lead.85
• Copper.86
• Aluminum.86
• A Few Useful Alloys.86
• Brass.86
• Type-metal.87
• Pewter.87
• How to Do Metal Work.87
• First Sketch Your Ideas.87
• Sheet Metal Work.87
• —Cutting and Sawing.87
• Making Seams and Joints.88
• How to Solder Metals.89
• Fluxes.89
• Solders.90
• Bolts and Rivets.90
• Bending Sheet Metal.90
• Finishing Up Metals.90
• Coloring Metals.90
• Bluing Steel.91
• Bluing Brass.91
• Giving Brass a Green Color.91
• Giving Brass a Dull Look.91
• Frosting Brass Articles.91
• Lacquering Brass and Copper.91
• How to Make the Lacquer.91
• CHAPTER IV VENETIAN IRON, REPOUSSÉ, PIERCED BRASS AND PEWTER WORK93
• Venetian Bent Iron Work93
• The Tools You Must Have.93
• The Materials You Need.93
• What to Do First.94
• How to Make a Toaster.94
• How to Make an Egg Boiler.97
• How to Make a Venetian Plate Holder.99
• Doing Repoussé Work103
• Tools Needed for Repoussé Work.103
• How to Prepare the Work.104
• Tracing the Design.105
• Bossing the Work.106
• How to Make a Flat Candlestick.106
• How to Make a Photo Frame.107
• Pierced Metal Work108
• The Outfit to Do It With.109
• How to Do the Work.111
• Casting and Working Pewter112
• Something About Pewter.113
• How to Make Pewter.113
• About Working Pewter.114
• How to Cast Pewter.114
• The Patterns Necessary.115
• Making the Mold.115
• Finishing the Ware.116
• Engraving on Metal116
• The Tools That Are Used.117
• How to Engrave on Metal.118
• CHAPTER V DRAWING SIMPLY EXPLAINED121
• Free-hand Drawing121
• Talent versus Practice.121
• Pictures for You to Draw.121
• Simple Line Sketches.121
• Sketching Simple Outline Figures.122
• The Proportions of the Human Figure.123
• How to Draw Faces.125
• Sketching Still Life Objects.127
• Drawing in Perspective.128
• How to Shade a Drawing.130
• Working Drawings130
• Drawing Tools You Should Have.130
• Simple Working Drawings.132
• Some Simple Aids to Drawing137
• How to Draw a Circle.137
• How to Draw a Spiral.138
• How to Draw an Ellipse.139
• How to Make and Use a Pantagraph.139
• How to Make a Reflecting Drawing Board.141
• How to Make Tracings.142
• To Make Lasting Impressions.142
• The Ancient and Honored Art of Cutting Silhouettes.144
• Transfer Pictures, or Decalcomania.145
• CHAPTER VI SOME KINKS IN PHOTOGRAPHY148
• How to Make Blue Prints.148
• The Materials Required.149
• Another Kind of Contact Printing.149
• To Tone and Fix the Picture.149
• Recipe for a Combined Toning and Fixing Solution.150
• The Simplest Kind of a Camera.150
• How to Develop a Dry Plate.152
• How to Make the Developer.153
• How to Make a Fixing Bath.154
• A Good and Cheap Camera.154
• How to Make an Enlarging Apparatus.156
• How to Make an Enlargement.158
• A Developer for Bromide Paper.159
• How to Make a Reflectoscope.160
• To Use the Reflectoscope.163
• How to Make a Magic Lantern.164
• How to Work the Lantern.166
• How to Make Lantern Slides.166
• How to Make Radium Photographs.167
• Trick Photography168
• Spirit Photographs.168
• One Way to Catch Big Fish.168
• Taking Caricature Photographs.169
• CHAPTER VII PRINTING AND ITS ALLIED ARTS171
• Kinds of Printing Presses.171
• The Parts of a Self-Inking Press.171
• How the Press Works.173
• Sizes and Prices of Presses.173
• The Outfit You Need.173
• Outfit for a 3 × 5 Press.173
• Outfit for a 5 × 8 Press.174
• Outfit for an 8 × 10 Press.174
• About Type and Setting Type.174
• —Relative Number of Type Letters.174
• Styles of Type.175
• The Parts of a Type.178
• The Sizes of Type.179
• Your Type Cases.181
• Setting the Type.183
• Making Ready.185
• Printing the Job.187
• How to Clean Type.187
• About Distributing Type.187
• The Ink and Rollers.187
• —The Ink.187

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