Item Name: Carpentry 1913 - 1921

Item ID: Carpen-AH7

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

Requirements August 1911 until October 1914

1. Know the proper way to drive, set and clinch a nail.

2. Know the different kinds of chisels, planes and saws, and how to sharpen and use them.

3. Know the use of the rule, square, level, plumb-line and miter.

4. Know how to use compasses for scribing both regular and irregular lines.

5. Make an article of furniture with three different standard joints or splices, with at least one surface of highly polished hard or decorative wood.  All work to be done without assistance.

 

Requirements October 1914 until August 1922

1. Know the proper way to drive, set, and clinch a nail, and draw a spike with a claw-hammer.

2. Know the use of the rule, square, level, plumbline, miter, chalk-line, and bevel.

3. Lay out a rectangle by the use of 6, 8, 10, and prove it by its diagonals.

4. Know how to lay shingles.

5. make an article of furniture for practical use in his home finished in workmanlike manner, all work to be done without assistance.