This section is from the book "Shop Projects Based On Community Problems", by Myron G. Burton. Also available from Amazon: Shop Projects Based on Community Problems.
BY the time the student has reached this section he should be able to understand the three regular views of the working drawing. The purpose of this section is to review and develop the principles and processes set forth under Section I. There will also be found the introduction of some processes which have not been previously set forth. The use of dowels in gluing up work is introduced and should be carefully impressed because of its common application. This work will make a very severe test of the pupils' ability in planing edges perfectly straight and square.
This section also offers some easy exercises which can be successfully carried out by less skillful students. For the more adept students there will be found certain exercises which, while they do not introduce any difficult joints, will call for very accurate thinking, particularly in the assembling work. This will be found especially true in the flytrap lesson.
Students should not feel that they are able to omit the references to the supplement. These references should be continually studied in order that each student may have before him constant ideals for the use of tools, and thus avoid forming any bad habits. It is very much easier to form correct habits at the start than it is to reform them after the incorrect habits have been established.
If the students have not been required to do tool-sharpening in Section I, they should be led to see the importance of this work by this time. They should be required to turn to the supplement and study the methods of sharpening chisels and planes. Students must learn quite early that it is impossible to do good work with dull tools.
This section offers an opportunity to do some very excellent work in finishing. The bread-cutting board is especially adapted to this purpose, and it will be found very interesting and attractive, as well as valuable from the practical standpoint, to have the students work out a fine shellac finish on this piece of work.
If the students have not been enthusiastic about the preparation of their own drawings, by making the drawing board as presented in the instructions, an interest may be aroused. The making of a T-square is not presented in the regular lesson, however; it can be readily made from the illustrations given with the drawing board and it will be found very interesting, particularly for the more skillful students.
 
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