Any person wishing to make a picture frame, or to cut down an old one, requires a miter box for that purpose, so that the molding may be properly held while sawing it, and also for nailing the corners together. I made a miter box, as shown, and found it to be just the thing for this purpose. It is built on a base similar to an overturned box, the saw guides being held on the ends of a piece, constructed as shown at A. Holes are cut in the top, as shown at B, for one of the guides and for the two wedges. Two pieces, C, are fastened with their outer edges at perfectly right angles on the top.

Ill: Homemade Miter Box for Sawing Frame Molding and to Hold the Parts for Fastening Together

The frame parts are clamped against the pieces on top with the wedges driven in between the frame parts and the brackets DD. After cutting the frame parts they are tightly held in place while fastening them, in any manner desired. - Contributed by A. S. Thomas, Amherstburg, Can.