This section is from the book "Scientific Sloyd", by Anna Molander. Also available from Amazon: Scientific sloyd.
For this Standard the same principal geometrical figures are used as in the previous Standards. But now the pupils begin with piercing work. All the different sorts of drills are here used to great advantage. Compass saws and bow saws are employed. For the purpose can also be used star saw blades or scroll saw blades screwed into extension saw frames. To learn to screw in those saw blades the pupils need a special exercise. It amuses them to find that it has some similarity to the tuning of a fiddle. To be able to turn the big screws they need a pair of pinchers, and in order to adjust the opposite small screws they will have to learn the use of the screw driver.
The pupils should at this Standard be trained to make decorative designs with the drills, thus developing artistic taste and practical imagination.
1. A square with a smaller square cut out from the center part will make a useful Flower pot stand. The outside edges are trimmed in the same way as was the square in Standard I, while the inside edges are trimmed with the flat file and the three-cornered file.
2. The next model is a right-angled isosceles triangle with a smaller similar one cut out. This will be good for a Ruler or a Marking square.
3. A rectangle with a rhombus cut out can be useful as a Stand for a pan.
4. Parallel rectangles cut out from a large rectangle with borders left along the short sides will serve as a Flower pot stand.
5. Symmetrical squares cut out from a rectangle are a good demonstration for The square measure.
6. A circle with a smaller circle cut out will make a Stand for a butter dish.
7. A still smaller one a Stand for the ink bottle.
8, 9. Clothes-pins and Flower ladders are useful models.
10, 11. Also Button sticks and Knob sticks of various kind.
12, 13, 14, 15. Picture frames, Mirror frames, Calendar frames and Embroidering frames are made of different kinds.
16. Six octagons in juxtaposition will make a Mat.
17. A Tool rack is made of a rectangle with a double row of small rectangles cut out.
18. Spoon shelves are made from semi-circles with concentric arcs cut out.
19. Candle saves from two concentric circles, the inner bored out with the expansive bit from the larger one.
20. A perforated Fish spoon is made in the shape of a pentagon with a handle.
In order to accomplish neatly this Standard the pupils will have to develop much accuracy and great carefulness. They will learn to appreciate the beauty of regular and symmetrical figures and at the same time they will acquire a steady foundation for further geometrical studies.
 
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