This section is intended only for students who have had sufficient training in bench work to enable them to understand working drawings, to originate simple designs with some taste and judgment and to handle the principal tools with such skill as to avoid wasting material. The matter of preparing the stock, of laying out and executing ordinary processes should furnish no difficulty.

Throughout this section no references will be made to the detail of simple processes in the supplement; students who have not mastered those elementary principles should continue their work in an earlier section of the text.

The projects set forth in this section deal with cabinet principles in an elementary way, employing them in a widely varying list of ideas, in order to appeal to the taste of all students. Some of these lessons afford an opportunity to develop a high degree of skill in the art of wood finishing, and while it is sometimes a little difficult to provide satisfactory conditions to do fine varnishing work, yet the results will be very gratifying if such arrangements can be made.

In as much as the articles presented in this section will become a part of the student's home equipment and should last an indefinite number of years, each student should be urgently advised to use only the very best of carefully dried cabinet lumber. While the quartered oak is a little more expensive than plain oak, yet its advantages, in the way of beauty and permanency of the work, make it much to be preferred.