Handkerchief Box & Whiskbroom Holder
Chip Carving Instructions
Handkerchief Box & Whiskbroom Holder
HANDKERCHIEF BOX
The under top board should be screwed as well as glued to the cover, with the grain running cross-wise.
The detail drawings show one-half of one side and one-half of the pattern for the cover.
WHISKBROOM HOLDER
The front and the back of this model had better be carved before the parts are glued together.
Because the design on the sides extends to its edges, the outside rows of chips are better cut after the parts are glued.
The chips between the vertical rows of flat diamonds are somewhat peculiar in that their deepest points are not together, but are at opposite ends of the valley.
WHISKBROOM HOLDER.
To stab these rosettes a gouge (Fig. 6) of suitable. sweep is desirable, though the curves can be cut by drawing the knife several times along them.
Attention is called to the leaf pattern border on the edge and ends of the shelf.
This border may, of course, be omitted.
Accurate cutting of the sparklets will add much to the appearance of this article.
The upper edges of the elliptical opening should be well rounded with sandpaper.
