Material

Poplar or pine, 3"x 3"x 8".

Exercise

To turn a piece of the form and dimensions shown in Fig. 41.

Turn a smooth cylinder 2 1/2 inches in diameter in the same manner that the cylinder was turned in the first exercise. Make divisional marks around it with the dividers, using the dimensions given in Fig. 41 for the spaces. Recesses are to be cut in the alternate spaces between the marks. Start a recess by holding the skew chisel in the position shown in Fig. 39, the acute corner down and a little inside the mark, and with the bevel on the side on which the cut is started, having the direction in which the cut will be made, as shown in Fig. 42 'and and force the corner of the chisel a short distance into the wood, and repeat this on the other side of the space to be cut. Remove the material between these two cuts in the same way as that in which the surface was made smooth, except that now the obtuse corner of the chisel is used in the cutting, instead of the edge between the corners.

Fig. 39. Now raise the handle.

Fig: 41.

Fig. 42.

Use the acute corner of the chisel in cutting the sides, and take care that the obtuse corner is clear of the wood by making the edge take the position relative to the side shown in Fig. 42 and Fig. 43 at [a].

Keep the corner of the chisel not in use clear of the work when removing the material between the sides.

Finish the central recess first and then the others.

Fig. 43.