draining is a tedious but not too difficult business for a person of ordinary intelligence to attempt with a fair degree of success. In the outset, a clear idea of the wood to be represented, should be in mind. A good plan, where the commoner woods are to be represented, is to procure a board having one or more sound knots and plane it off, and with this for a model,proceed to grain the job in hand.

Before the graining properly commences, the work should be made very smooth with sand-paper and putty, and one or more priming coats of white lead should be laid on and allowed to dry; the work is then ready for ground coat.