Handicraft for boys
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- HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS
- A WORD TO THE BOY
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I CARPENTRY WORK AND CABINET MAKING
- The Tools You Need.
- The Kind of Tools.
- Some Hints on Using Tools.
- How to Hold a Hammer.
- How to Use a Saw.
- How to Use a Plane.
- How to Use Chisels and Gouges.
- How to Use a Brace and Bit.
- How to Use a Rule.
- How to Use a Marking Gauge.
- How to Use Hand Screws or Clamps.
- How to Use a Nail Set.
- How to Use a Gimlet.
- How to Drive Nails and Screws.
- How to Make a Glue-Pot.
- How to Make Good Glue and How to Use It.
- How to Sharpen Your Tools.
- About Sharpening Saws.
- About Sharpening Chisels and Plane Bits.
- About Sharpening Auger Bits.
- How to Take Care of Your Tools.
- Removing Rust from Tools.
- To Etch Your Name on Tools.
- Kinds of Wood to Use.
- Pine.
- Cedar.
- Mahogany.
- Oak.
- Birch.
- Walnut.
- How to Make Joints.
- Edge Joints.
- Corner Joints.
- About Working Drawings.
- Things for You to Make.
- How to Make a Work Bench.
- How to Make a Tool Chest.
- CHAPTER II SCROLL SAWING, WOOD TURNING, WOOD CARVING, ETC.
- All About Scroll Sawing
- Scroll Sawing Outfits.
- A Cheap Scroll Sawing Outfit.
- A Few Other Helpful Things.
- How to Trace a Design on Wood.
- Designs for Scroll Sawing.
- Foot-Power Scroll Saws.
- How a Foot-Power Scroll Saw Works.
- How to Saw on a Foot-Power Scroll Saw.
- TABLE OF SCROLL SAW WOODS
- Fancy Woods for Scroll Saw Work.
- Trimmings for Boxes, Etc.
- Turning in Wood
- Get a Lathe First.
- The Cheapest Lathe You Can Buy.
- Turning Tools for Wood.
- How to Turn Wood.
- The Art of Wood Carving
- Your Set of Carving Tools.
- The Best Woods for Carving.
- Kinds of Wood Carving.
- Pyrography, or Wood Burning
- The Necessary Tools.
- Coloring and Staining Wood.
- CHAPTER III METALS AND METAL WORKING
- Your Kit of Tools.
- The Various Kinds of Tools.
- Some Hints on Using the Tools.
- About Sharpening Tools.
- Metals and their Uses.
- Iron.
- Tin.
- Zinc.
- Lead.
- Copper.
- Aluminum.
- A Few Useful Alloys.
- Brass.
- Type-metal.
- Pewter.
- How to Do Metal Work.
- First Sketch Your Ideas.
- Sheet Metal Work.
- —Cutting and Sawing.
- Making Seams and Joints.
- How to Solder Metals.
- Fluxes.
- Solders.
- Bolts and Rivets.
- Bending Sheet Metal.
- Finishing Up Metals.
- Coloring Metals.
- Bluing Steel.
- Bluing Brass.
- Giving Brass a Green Color.
- Giving Brass a Dull Look.
- Frosting Brass Articles.
- Lacquering Brass and Copper.
- How to Make the Lacquer.
- CHAPTER IV VENETIAN IRON, REPOUSSÉ, PIERCED BRASS AND PEWTER WORK
- Venetian Bent Iron Work
- The Tools You Must Have.
- The Materials You Need.
- What to Do First.
- How to Make a Toaster.
- How to Make an Egg Boiler.
- How to Make a Venetian Plate Holder.
- Doing Repoussé Work
- Tools Needed for Repoussé Work.
- How to Prepare the Work.
- Tracing the Design.
- Bossing the Work.
- How to Make a Flat Candlestick.
- How to Make a Photo Frame.
- Pierced Metal Work
- The Outfit to Do It With.
- How to Do the Work.
- Casting and Working Pewter
- Something About Pewter.
- How to Make Pewter.
- About Working Pewter.
- How to Cast Pewter.
- The Patterns Necessary.
- Making the Mold.
- Finishing the Ware.
- Engraving on Metal
- The Tools That Are Used.
- How to Engrave on Metal.
- CHAPTER V DRAWING SIMPLY EXPLAINED
- Free-hand Drawing
- Talent versus Practice.
- Pictures for You to Draw.
- Simple Line Sketches.
- Sketching Simple Outline Figures.
- The Proportions of the Human Figure.
- How to Draw Faces.
- Sketching Still Life Objects.
- Drawing in Perspective.
- How to Shade a Drawing.
- Working Drawings
- Drawing Tools You Should Have.
- Simple Working Drawings.
- Some Simple Aids to Drawing
- How to Draw a Circle.
- How to Draw a Spiral.
- How to Draw an Ellipse.
- How to Make and Use a Pantagraph.
- How to Make a Reflecting Drawing Board.
- How to Make Tracings.
- To Make Lasting Impressions.
- The Ancient and Honored Art of Cutting Silhouettes.
- Transfer Pictures, or Decalcomania.
- CHAPTER VI SOME KINKS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Make Blue Prints.
- The Materials Required.
- Another Kind of Contact Printing.
- To Tone and Fix the Picture.
- Recipe for a Combined Toning and Fixing Solution.
- The Simplest Kind of a Camera.
- How to Develop a Dry Plate.
- How to Make the Developer.
- How to Make a Fixing Bath.
- A Good and Cheap Camera.
- How to Make an Enlarging Apparatus.
- How to Make an Enlargement.
- A Developer for Bromide Paper.
- How to Make a Reflectoscope.
- To Use the Reflectoscope.
- How to Make a Magic Lantern.
- How to Work the Lantern.
- How to Make Lantern Slides.
- How to Make Radium Photographs.
- Trick Photography
- Spirit Photographs.
- One Way to Catch Big Fish.
- Taking Caricature Photographs.
- CHAPTER VII PRINTING AND ITS ALLIED ARTS
- Kinds of Printing Presses.
- The Parts of a Self-Inking Press.
- How the Press Works.
- Sizes and Prices of Presses.
- The Outfit You Need.
- Outfit for a 3 × 5 Press.
- Outfit for a 5 × 8 Press.
- Outfit for an 8 × 10 Press.
- About Type and Setting Type.
- —Relative Number of Type Letters.
- Styles of Type.
- The Parts of a Type.
- The Sizes of Type.
- Your Type Cases.
- Setting the Type.
- Making Ready.
- Printing the Job.
- How to Clean Type.
- About Distributing Type.
- The Ink and Rollers.
- —The Ink.
- The Rollers.
- Printing in Colors.
- Printing in Gold.
- And Finally Your Stock Supply.
- The Art of Paper Making
- What Paper Is.
- How to Make Paper.
- Sizing and Finishing.
- How to Bind Books
- Making the Cover.
- Sewing the Book.
- Putting on the Title.
- CHAPTER VIII RUBBER STAMPS, DIE SINKING, BURNING BRANDS AND STENCILS
- Rubber Stamps
- How to Make Rubber Stamps.
- Making the Mold.
- Vulcanizing the Rubber.
- Mounting the Rubber.
- How to Use a Rubber Stamp.
- To Make Rubber Stamp Inks.
- How to Make a Copygraph Pad.
- How to Copy a Letter.
- How to Make Hectograph Inks.
- Die Sinking
- How to Make Badges, etc.
- How to Sink the Letters.
- Finishing Up the Badge.
- Burning Brands
- How to Make a Burning Brand.
- Stencils
- How to Cut Stencils.
- CHAPTER IX THE ART OF WORKING GLASS
- What Glass Is.
- How to Cut Glass.
- How to Use a Glass Cutter.
- How to Finish Off Glass Edges.
- How to Drill Holes in Glass.
- A Couple of Ways to Cut Glass Tubing.
- —The First Way.
- The Second Way.
- How to Cut Glass Disks.
- How to Bend Glass Tubing.
- What a Bunsen Burner Is.
- Bending the Glass Tube.
- How to Blow Glass To Round the Ends of a Tube.
- To Border the Ends of a Tube.
- To Seal Off the End of a Tube.
- To Make a Glass Nozzle.
- To Make a Hole in a Tube.
- To Join Two Tubes of the Same Size.
- To Join One Tube to the Side of Another One.
- To Blow a Bulb on the End of a Tube.
- —How to Make a Blow-Pipe.
- How to Blow a Bulb.
- How to Etch Glass.
- The Sand Blast Process.
- How to Make Ground Glass.
- The Acid Process.
- How to Cement Glass.
- A Simple Way to Frost Glass.
- Substitutes for Glass.
- Mica.
- Gelatine.
- How to Silver a Mirror.
- CHAPTER X TOYS FOR THE KIDDIES
- How to Make a Policeman’s Puzzle.
- How to Make an Automobile Truck.
- How to Make a Swell Coaster.
- How to Make a Nifty Wheelbarrow.
- How to Make a High-Low Swing.
- How to Make a Stick Horse.
- How to Make a Pony and Cart.
- How to Make a Life-like Goose.
- How to Make a Dancing Sambo.
- How to Make a Wireless Pup.
- CHAPTER XI HOME MADE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
- The Musical Coins.
- —How to Make Them.
- How to Play Them.
- The Musical Tomato Cans.
- —How to Make Them.
- To Play the Tomato Cans.
- The Musical Glasses.
- —How to Make Them.
- How to Play the Glasses.
- The Tubular Harp.
- —How to Make It.
- How to Play the Harp.
- The Musical Push Pipe.
- —How to Make It.
- To Play the Push Pipe.
- The Curious Xylophone.
- —How to Make It.
- How to Play the Xylophone.
- The Peculiar Tubaphone.
- —How to Make It.
- How to Play the Tubaphone.
- The Cathedral Chimes.
- —How to Make Them.
- How to Play the Cathedral Chimes.
- The Æolian Harp.
- —How to Make It.
- How the Wind Plays It.
- An Egyptian Fiddle.
- —How to Make It.
- How to Make the Bow.
- CHAPTER XII SOME EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS
- Cartoons While You Wait.
- Drawing the Cartoons.
- Thirty Minutes of Chemistry.
- The Mystic Glass of Milk.
- The Cause.
- The Chemical Action.
- For the Fun of the Thing.
- The Magic Fountain.
- The Cause.
- How to Make Hydrogen Chloride Gas.
- The Vicious Soap Bubbles.
- The Cause.
- Caution.
- The Uncanny Wheel.
- The Cause.
- How to Make Carbon Dioxide Gas.
- Giving a Travelogue.
- An Electrical Soirée.
- Demonstrating Electricity Without Apparatus.
- The Electrified Papers.
- How to Electrify a Person.[133]
- How Like Repels Like.
- Making Experiments With Apparatus.
- The Induction, or Spark Coil.
- Demonstrating Wireless Telegraphy.
- Reading Palms for Fun.
- How to Read Palms.
- A Talk on the Steam Engine.
- Making the Model Engine.
- How the Engine Works.
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