Fifth Grade

First Week - Model No. 1

Theory (Ten Minutes)

1. Object of hand work in wood.

2. Tools used in making first exercise.

3. Measuring, the use of the rule, knife, and pencil.

4. Use of the try-square.

Practice

Sawing out stock. note: Draw outline on both surfaces.

Second Week - Model No. 1, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

1. Tools.

(a) Smoothing plane.

(b) Block plane.

(c) Marking gauge.

(d) Backsaw.

(e) Bit and bit brace.

2. Use of compass and dividers.

Practice

1. Planing a square edge of wood.

2. Use of carpenters' marks.

3. Drawing, gauging, and planing stock to dimensions.

Third Week - Model No. 1, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Use of coping saw.

Practice

1. Draw outline, using compass.

2. Using coping saw, cut to line.

Fourth Week - Model No. 1, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

1. Discussion of grain of wood.

2. Cutting with and across grain.

Practice

1. Finish sawing wood.

2. Cut to line with knife.

Fifth Week - Model No. 1, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

1. Methods of securing and getting out lumber.

2. Sandpaper; its uses and abuses.

Practice

1. Sandpaper stock, with or without the use of a sandpaper block.

2. Finish model.

Glue on sandpaper.

Sixth Week - Model No. 2

Theory (Ten Minutes)

1. Discussion of wood.

Bass wood. Linden tree.

2. Discussion of the ripsaw.

Practice

Saw stock, using carpenter's square.

Seventh Week - Model No. 2, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Discussion of wood. White wood, tulip tree.

Practice

Plane model square and true to dimensions.

Eighth Week - Model No. 2, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Discussion of saws. Crosscut saw.

Practice

1. Draw outline of model

2. Saw with back- and ripsaw to gauge and knife line.

Ninth Week - Model No. 2, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Short discussion of stains and shellacs.

Practice

1. Finish model.

2. Sandpaper and shellac.

Tenth Week - Model No. 3

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Discussion of woods. Pines, white, etc.

Practice

Saw out stock.

Eleventh Week - Model No. 3, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

1. Discussion of planes, smoothing and jack.

2. Woods. White oak.

Practice

Square stock to dimensions.

Twelfth Week - Model No. 3, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Discussion of drills and countersinks.

Practice

1. Lay out and mark center lines for holes.

2. Drill holes and countersink.

3. Draw lines for chamfer, using finger-gauge.

Thirteenth Week - Model No. 3, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Discussion of planes. Block.

Practice

1. Chamfer edges.

2. Plane and sandpaper model.

Fourteenth Week - Model No. 4

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Discussion of woods. Hard and soft.

Practice

1. Saw out stock.

2. Plane to dimensions.

Fifteenth Week - Model No. 4, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Discussion of woods. Mahogany.

Practice

1. Draw design, using compass.

2. Cut to line with knife.

3. Whittle edges of blade.

Sixteenth Week - Model No. 4, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Structure of wood. Products.

Practice

1. Sandpaper model.

2. Stain and finish.

Seventeenth Week - Model No. 5

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Structure of wood.

Practice

Saw out stock.

Eighteenth Week - Model No. 5, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Structure of wood. Pith.

Practice

Plane model square and true to dimensions.

Nineteenth Week - Model No. 5, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

1. Structure of wood.

Layer of wood.

2. Use of miter box.

Practice

1. Draw outline of model.

2. Cut edges.

Twentieth Week - Model No. 5, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

1. Structure of wood.

Bark.

2. Use of auger bit.

Practice

File curved corners.

Twenty-First Week - Model No. 5, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Structure of wood. Annual rings.

Practice

1. Lay out center lines. 2. Bore holes.

Twenty-Second Week - Model No. 5, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Structure of wood. Sap wood.

Practice

Sandpaper and finish model.

Twenty-Third Week - Model No. 6

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Structure of wood. Heart wood.

Practice

1. Plane stock square and true to dimensions.

2. Sandpaper same.

Twenty-Fourth Week - Model No. 6, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

1. Structure of wood.

Medullary rays.

2. Use of gouge.

Practice

1. Chamfer edges of wood. 2. Gouge out hole for wax.

Twenty-Fifth Week - Model No. 6, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes.)

Food for trees.

Practice

1. Sandpaper model.

2. Shellac model.

3. Glue on asbestos and emery cloth.

Twenty-Sixth Week - Model No. 7

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Density of wood.

Practice

Plane stock square and true to dimensions, using jack plane and spokeshave.

Twenty-Seventh Week - Model No. 7, (Continued)

Theory (Ten Minutes)

Growth of wood.

Practice

1. Draw ellipse on both surfaces.

2. Using turning saw, saw outside of line.