To make a small bamboo stand for supporting a hand camera, prepare a cylindrical block of hard wood like A (Fig. 1), boring it through the centre and making cuts B, C, and D. Into these fit firmly the hinges or upper parts F. of the caps (Fig. 2), passing a pin or rivet through each on which the caps turn (see dotied lines F and G). Through the central hole H pass a brass rod L about 1 ft. long with a screw thread cut on it, to go into the camera base. At K insert a coarse-thread nut to take a thumbscrew II, which bites against L, for fixing it at any height. Fit each of three small bamboo canes with ferrules and insert tightly in the metal caps, and the stan i is complete.

Fig. 2. Bamboo Camera Stand.