6 File Handle 115

Full Size.

Model No. 6. - File Handle.

Cut from a 7-8" board a piece 1" x 1". Plane this to an oblong 13-16" x 7". With the use of the tenon-saw and knife cut this to an oblong 13-16" x 5 1-16". Draw the diagonals on one end, and placing the stick in a vertical position in the vice, bore the hole with a pin-bit.

Draw the plan upon two opposite sides of the stick, omitting the curves. Cut with the knife to lines. Proceed in the same way with the remaining opposite sides, making the frustrum of a square pyramid.

Quadrisect the lines that are 1-4" from one end and all edges of the smaller end. Join opposite points and cut to lines, making the frustrum of an octagonal pyramid. Proceed with the rounding as in Model No. 1. Finish with file and sand-paper.