Scouting, Volume 33, Number 2, February-March 1945 Page: 22
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Handicraft and craftsmanship each have a place
in Scouting. The two sound so much alike that
they are often misused.
There are craftmanship Merit Badges in leather,
metal, wood carving, each for accurate and artistic
use of a certain kind of material. The article may
have little or no practical use in Scouting except as
an example of skillful handling of tools and materials.
Handicraft, however, aims primarily at usefulness
and ability to make things needed for some job, with
or without ordinary materials and tools. The handy-
man has to be a sort of jack-of-all-trades, who can
improvise a gadget that serves the purpose even
though it may not look fancy or artistic. It's a sign
of good Scouting if a camper is able to make his
equipment just as did pioneers and backwoodsmen.
Wire work is one of the most practical and at the
same time, least expensive, of camp handicrafts. Few
tools and little material are needed. Just a pair of
wire pliers, round-nosed pinchers with wire cutter,
maybe a flat file and several pieces of wire of various
sizes depending on what is to be made. Wire coat
hangers, wire barrel hoops, hay wire, or wire sal-
vaged from crates, bundles of shingles, or an old
radio aerial, provide the raw materials.
You might start on big blanket pins. They are
always needed in camp and they are hard to find in
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the stores now. Pot hooks, toasters, egg beaters, steak
(hot dog) broilers, and meat forks come next. Then
a wire grill, soap racks, box hinges and fastener.
To make a three-inch blanket pin take a piece of
stiff wire about ten inches long and proceed as
shown:
File the end to a point. Carefully bend the catch
so the point is guarded. Smooth the point on a pocket
whet stone.
Here's a pot hook that everybody will admire.
Take two straight pieces of stiff wire (heavy fence
wire is good), one about thirty inches long, the other
twelve. Make a large hook on one end of the long
piece (No. 1) and a small hook on the other.
Coil one end of the shorter wire (No. 2) twice
around the center of No. 1. Ten inches from the coil
bend the second wire sharply back on itself. Three
inches from the loose end bend at right angles, and
wind once around the main shaft and finish with a
short hook as illustrated. Then make a large hook
of the doubled wire end.
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Adjust the angle of part two so that friction will
hold it from slipping when the last made hook is
hooked over part one, and will slide when hook is
released.
An egg beater should be about twelve inches long,
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 33, Number 2, February-March 1945, periodical, February 1945; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth313111/m1/24/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.