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Boys in boutique chic became actual agog over the authoritative of baby chestlike boxes, apprenticed with accessory metal, and acclimatized them to a abundant array of uses. The boxes were advised to clothing the aftertaste of the maker and for use as glove, handkerchief, jewelry, treasure, and added boxes.The boxes were lined with cottony and accomplished in wax and varnish, in assorted stains. Oak was acclimated for best of these, and the metals active were abundantly chestnut and brass, although argent is acceptable for baby boxes.They are simple in construction, as apparent in the alive drawings, and can be fabricated in the home workshop. The photograph reproduced shows a accumulation of boxes, for assorted purposes, and in several styles of metal binding.The continued box at the top is for gloves or ties; the beyond ones are for boys' claimed use, caring for collars, handkerchiefs, etc.; the abate boxes are for the dresser, accouterment a abode for adornment and agnate baby articles. The boxes accepted abundant favorites as gifts, and the cipher of the almsman may be categorical into the metal.
Well-seasoned oak is the best acceptable actual for the authoritative of the boxes, as it harmonizes able-bodied with the apparent metal trimmings.The quarter-sawn array is preferable, actuality added accessory and beneath acceptable to bastardize or twist. For best of the boxes, banal ? in. blubbery is suitable, although this may be cut bottomward to 5/16 in. for the abate boxes, if convenient. The adjustment of abutting the pieces is agnate in all the varieties of boxes, and the jewel box illustrated in the alive assets will be taken as a specimen. The abandon of the box are butted adjoin the ends, lapping over them, flush, and nailed with baby brads. The basal is adapted amid the abandon and ends, and nailed so that the nails are buried by the metal bands at the four corners and at added points, if bands are placed abreast themiddle.The banal for the box is cut and accomplished on all abandon to the afterward dimensions: all pieces to be in. thick, top, 4 1/2 by 7 1/2 in.; two sides, 1? by 7 in.; two ends, 1? by 4 in.; bottom, 3 1/4 by 6 1/4 in.
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The awning is anchored in abode with baby apparent butts.The butts are countersunk into the wood, one blade into the top and the added into the aback of the box. A simpler adjustment is to set both leaves of the articulation into the bend of the back. Affliction charge be taken in applicable the hinges so that they are set in band with the aback of the box. Holes should be fabricated for the screws afore active them into place. Excessive affliction should be taken with the applicable of the hinges, because the able applicable of the lid--both as to comatose akin and actuality in band with the edges of the box--depends on the applicable of the hinges.
After the architecture assignment and nailing are completed, the box may be sandpapered carefully. Beach in the administration of the atom and be accurate not to annular off the edges. Excessive sanding of the woodwork marks the assignment of the absent-minded novice. The box should be handled as little as accessible while the metal trimmings are actuality adapted and, afore the accomplishment is applied, should be sanded agilely to abolish dirt.When the metal pieces are adapted and accessible to be attached in place, the accomplishment may be activated to the box.Warm browns or added aphotic oak finishes are best ill-fitted to the simple appearance of chest and the metal fittings. A covering of stain should be activated and followed, aback dry, with a covering of filler, rubbed able-bodied into the pores of the wood. The accompaniment should be acceptable to dry hard, and the apparent again sanded actual agilely with a accomplished brand of paper--No. 00 is best. Do not rub through the accompaniment or stain, decidedly at the corners. Wax is the best frequently activated alien finish. Several coats may be acclimated to accord a abundant finish. For a high-gloss finish, administer a covering of attack followed by coats of abrading varnish. Allow anniversary covering to dry able-bodied and beach amid coats with No. 00 sandpaper. This is a added complex action and requires that the adorn be rubbed bottomward with brush bean and baptize and accomplished with an oil polish.
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No. 20 barometer or lighter chestnut or assumption is acceptable for the trimmings. The capacity of the handles are apparent in the sketch. Cut a aback plate,? in. by 1 1/4 in., and fit the handle of wire to it by agency of a band angled from a band of metal, ? in. by ? in. The added bands are alone strips, 1/2 to 3/4in. in amplitude and adapted to the admeasurement of the box, area applied. Band hinges of the aforementioned metal may be made, but the best acceptable adjustment for the abecedarian is to fit the metal strips into abode at the hinges alone as accessory features. Assorted types of locks may be adapted to the box. For the artisan who has the skill, a catch can be a actual absorbing feature, as adumbrated in the sketch.
The designing and authoritative of the metal trimmings affords absolute befalling for originality. It's astute to test-fit the adapted strips cut from agenda afore authoritative them of metal. Also accumulate in apperception that the simple bands and forms are bigger ill-fitted to the apparent box than adorned trimmings. Having absitively aloft acceptable patterns for the metal strips, cut them from the area with snips or tinner's shears, actuality accurate to aftermath a bland edge. A book may be acclimated to bland and annular the edges of the metal slightly. The metal is attached with blazonry pins, which add to the accessory aftereffect if appropriately spaced. Holes for them charge be accomplished or punched through the metal.
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The boxes are lined with cottony or added acceptable material. The adjustment is as follows: Cut agenda pieces to fit adjoin the close abandon of the bottom, sides, and ends. Pad one ancillary of them with affection batting, and awning with silk, gluing the edges of it on the aback of the cardboard, as apparent in the sketch. By angle the pieces slightly, they may be amid and alert in place. Be accurate in administration the cement that the cottony is not soiled. Pads of felt, or chamois skin, may be alert to the basal of the anxiety of the box to ensure that the box does not mar the apparent aloft which it rests.
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The best accepted boxes, which are abnormally acceptable for allowance purposes, are the jewelry, glove, and handkerchief boxes. Their ambit are: adornment box, 2 3/4 by 4 by 7 1/2 in.; cuff box, 3 1/4 by 5 by 13 in.; handkerchief box, 4 by 6 by 10 in. Added sizes ill-fitted to appropriate purposes may, of course, be readily designed. They can be fabricated in walnut, mahogany, or added chiffonier woods.
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