2-INCH SLABS HALF-ROUND SPLIT-POLE CLEAT HALVED JOINT WHERE TABLE LEGS CROSS SPREAD OF LEGS AT BOTTOM EQUALS WIDTH OF TOP
[Illustration: An extremely simple yet effective camp stool made from a smoothed half-log. Bore four holes at least two inches deep for the legs and be sure they are spread well apart.]
[Illustration: This “dummy waiter” type of underground cooler consists of a hole or well about 10 feet deep lined with concrete or bricks, with a frame over it to hold a series of shelves hung on a pulley with a counterbalance.]
[Illustration: A small skylight trapdoor above your cabin cook stove serves as a ventilator and an escape for smoke and hot air. The drawing shows how it should be rigged. The box keeps out rain and snow and should be flashed all around with drain holes on the lower side.]
[Illustration: The simple two-way stool shown here is made by knocking out one side and one end of a fairly strong box. Round off the corners and fill the box with pillows or tack pads inside. It can be used as a low backrest on the floor, and when inverted makes an ordinary flat-topped seat.]
[Illustration: A rope-wound keg with sponge rubber cushion makes an unusual stool. A similar keg may also be used as a table base. Tack rope to hold in place.]
SPONGE RUBBER CUSHION ½-INCH ROPE LINOLEUM COVERED TOP
[Illustration: Any home craftsman can make this hurricane candlestick. Vent holes should be drilled on the underside to provide air for combustion. An ordinary lamp chimney is used. It will not smoke the chimney nor blow out in the wind.]
[Illustration: An old-fashioned, long-handled skillet, an electric clock and the skill of a manufacturing jeweler are the ingredients that go into the making of this unusual cabin timepiece.]
[Illustration: Steps in making traditional backwoods chairs. Seat and back can be woven of rawhide or covered with plywood and padded. If bending is not done when wood is green, steam wood in very hot water in covered trough.]
TWIST ROPE WITH STICK WOOD BLOCK BEND WEDGE IN TENON TIGHTENS JOING WHEN DRIVEN UP SLOPING SHOULDER MORTISE & TENON JOINT
[Illustration: This wagon hub lamp is simple enough to make and carries out the farmyard motif.]
[Illustration: A wagon wheel gate makes an interesting entrance to the cabin pathway.]