The Boy Scouts' Year Book by Boy Scouts of America

Author:Boy Scouts of America
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Published for the Boy Scouts of America [by] D . Appleton and Co
Published: 1921-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Outdoor Handicraft

Br Dan Beard

EVERY scout is supposed to know how to make the rubbing sticks, popularized by Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton, but I have discovered that every scout does not know how to make them, therefore I will say, in the good old-fashioned way, take a stick, Fig. i, any old stidc so long as it is green and strong, trim off the branches and pee! off the bark, Fig. 2. Now take a board, Figs. 3 and 4 and bend your stick to the form you wish it to be when used as a bow, hold it in place by driving nails on each side of tt in the board, Figs. 3'and 4, Fig. 3 is the top view and 4 is die perspective view of

the bow stick bent and fixed for drying. After three or four days the nails may be removed and you will have a bow with a permanent bend. Fig. 5. To this bow attach a whang string, a whang string you know is a belt lashing made of rawhide.

The Whang Siring

is too slippery for our purpose, so we will twist it before we fasten it to the bow, and rosin it as you would the horsehair of a fiddle bow, that will give it a "bite" and prevent it slipping over the surface of the spindle. Treated this way die whang

Outdoor Handicraft

string will work—^we have tried it. Fig. 6 shows the Are-board, Fig. 7 the spindle, both of which you know all about (maybe); possibly, however, you do not know that a section of broom stick makes a good spindle, and that white wood, such as you can get at the lumberyard, will make a good fire-board. Fig. 8 is the thimble. Many boys have thimbles made of stone, but they are heavy and uncomfortable to carry. Make your thimble from one of those knots, bunyons, or corns, which grow on trees and are known as burls. Saw off the burl and attach a toggle to it as you would a noggin. Make your tinder of the dried inner bark of a dead chestnut, I say dead chestnut because there are plenty of dead chestnuts everywhere in the country, maybe cedar bark is better, the nest of a mouse is good, but we will use dead chestnut because everybody can find it. Keep your tinder in a buckskin bag. Fig. ID, make your own buckskin bag. If you cannot secure buckskin make it of chamois.

The Fire Bag

Get a piece of tanned sheepskin, buckskin being practically unobtainable; cut the leather in the form shown by Fig. 11, then make a piece of stiffening from pasteboard, or any other similar substance, even of tin, and cover it with chamois skin, C, Fig. 12, sew it on to Fig. 11, as it is in Fig. 14. Next cut the piece for the pocket D, Fig. 13, and sew D onto C, as it is in Fig. 14.

You will note that D is hemmed, so to speak, at the top.

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