When inlaying stringing round drawer fronts or on taper table legs the mode of procedure is as follows. From a bit of broken bow-saw, or a bradawl filed to width, make a steel cutter to the width of the stringing. The cutter A in the illustration is secured by a screw B in a saw kerf C, an ordinary gauge being used to hold the cutter, which protrudes as much as the thickness of the stringing. Satinwood or boxwood stringing can generally be obtained from cabinet makers. Set the gauge to the required margin round the drawer fronts, or from the edge of the legs, and scratch the channels for stringing. The gauge is held as in ordinary gauging. To make a clean job, where the channels for stringing cross the grain of the wood, cut two lines with a knife, and then rout out the wood with a small chisel or with the cutter. The various lengths of stringing may then be fitted into their channels. Where the stringing intersects at the corners it must be mitred. Next take each length and put on the glue by running it against the glue brush over the glue pot. Press the stringing into the channel by the aid of the face or the back of the hammer.

When the work has had time to dry, say in about twenty-four hours, the job may be cleaned up and glasspapered.

Gauge for Inlaying Stringing in Cabinet Work.