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1904.] three inches and a half wide, and to this side the inner door is made fast with hinges, so it will swing in against a stop-molding on the opposite side, as shown at A in Fig. 5.

A small bolt on the door will fasten it in place when shut in, and on both sides of this door hooks and pegs can be arranged on which to hang tools. Inside the hack of the cabinet hooks and pegs can be arranged also, for saws, squares, and other flat tools, The outer door is provided with a side strip to take the place of the lacking part of that side of the cabinet, and when the doors are closed in and locked the appearance of the chest will be uniform, as shown in  on the opposite page.

With a little careful planning and figuring it will not be a difficult matter to construct this cabinet and the doors so that they will fit

snugly and close easily. The doors will keep their shape better if made from narrow matched boards and held together at the ends with battens or strips nailed across the ends of the boards, as shown in. Two-inch wrought butts will be heavy enough for the hinges of the doors. Provide a cabinet lock at the edge of the outer door.

On the inside of the outer door some tool-pegs can be arranged, and near the bottom a bit-rack is made with a leather strap formed into loops as described for the tool-rack. Under each loop a hole is bored in a strip of wood into which the square end of the bits will fit, so they will stand vertically and appear in an orderly row; for chisels a similar set of pockets can be made of wood.

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of the first lessons to learn will be that of making wood joints; for no matter what object is to be made, its construction will require some joiner work. There are, of course, a great variety of joints employed in carpentry, but many of them would be too complicated for the boy carpenter.

The easiest joint to make is the straight or box joint, made by butting the end of a board against the edge of another and nailing or screwing them fast, as in.

shows a lap-joint made by cutting