This handy tool will be found useful, and will save considerable time, in cutting wall paper up the rake of a stairway or where any ceiling slants, allowing the paper hanger to cut a number of lengths of paper on the paste board at once, where at present it is customary to cut one only at a time.

Fig. 102 - Adjustable templet for paper hangers.

The tool can be made of wood, and satisfaction obtained, although a better tool can be made from saw steel. Each blade is about three feet in length, two of them being furnished with slots, running almost the full length. Three thumbscrews, detailed on a larger scale, will be necessary to hold the frame together after the proper adjustment is obtained. The paper should be hung in position on the wall, and one side of the tool held along the perpendicular edge of the paper, while one of the other sides of the tool is adjusted to suit the angle of the stairway or slanting ceiling, when the screws are tightened up, and the frame permanently set.