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 ^-^^ 'tO ^-NlG^ /is home. VV^, jtO'»' ^proximately roft'*'^^' .mplil'icd much ^ifye 'special jigs and 3,*°^ ^Nt-orkshop machines ^ > Jis saw, and lathe. Ott^.,Vic^^ „,o^?nuil- was in making N^Y..ttva^'din. to ornament the Power Tools to Meet Today's Demands! NEW DESIGNS'NEW LOW PRICES! Look at this stronK. ball bearinB Jointer, rigid top. tillint; and lowering ar- bor, and perma- nent mortising at- tachment. Noth- ing on earth ex- actly like it. The low price will amaze you. It's a rtonderful value. compact unit with 4" new Saw Table with 10 INCH ^■•r^c ^er two copper wires," he o*^ them in a shallow groove ■A^ of wood. Then I filed away of them to give a flat surface. 40 this flat part a strip of thin itiy wider than the twisted wires, .lis on an anvil to serve as a form i accd over it a strip of annealed brass I five thousandths of an inch thick. Then I stamped the brass into shape by using the end grain of a block of hard maple and a | machinist's hammer. The excess brass was trimmed off with scissors, resulting in a per- fectly formed, easily made rope molding." DONALD C. BURNHAM, 16, of West Lafayette, Ind., who also gained one of the four uni%-ersity scholarships, did his work in a small basement and used no power tools except a small lathe. It is interesting to note how differently he attacked the same problem of making moldings. "I made the body moldings," he explained, "by filing little dies out of nails and stamping the moldings out of very thin brass. I then cut out the molding and soldered the tips of pins on the back of it. I stamped the top shell ornament in the same way, then cut it out with button-hole shears and filled the back with solder. When I poured in the solder, I put a pin in each shell. Then I drilled holes into the top molding and wedged the pins of the top shell ornament into them-" The winner of the remaining scholarship, Howard Jennings, 16, of Denver, Colo., showed equal ingenuity although he had no previous experience in model making. A second competition on a larger scale and offering prizes valued at $75,000 is now being conducted by the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild, which gained an enrollment of more than 14.S,000 as a result of its first competition. Under the guild regulations, however, boys who entered the first competition and wish to continue their membership will have to renew their enrollment. The new competition has a wider scope than the first because Canadian boys are eligible for it. The main prizes will again be four university scholarships of four years each. The problem will be to con- struct the same Napoleonic coach from plans provided without charge to all members of the guild. In sponsoring the guild, the Fisher brothers were influenced by the fact that they them- selves had risen from forge and bench. Their grandfather,. drew Fisher, who had a small blacksmith shop in Peru, Huron County, Ohio, taught his two sons, Andrew and Lawrence, the trade. The two boys later set up a shop at Norivalk, Ohio, where they built carriages. Lawrence was the father of the present Fisher brothers. Of these Fred, the oldest, went to work at his father's bench when he was fourteen, and at the same age Charles was busy helping his uncle at the forge. The other brothers — William .., Edward F., Lawrence P., and Alfred J. — all worked in the shop. All have continued their interest in craftsmanship, and William A. Fisher is directly engaged in the guild activities as its president. The movement, indeed, was a logical development of their desire to encourage the boys of today to work skillfully with their hands. 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