The better practice is to use a single piece of wider stock for the upper stiles, as in B, Figure 2.3. An interesting treatment of a threesection screen is to slope the curves up toward the taller central section as pictured in C, Figure 2.3. INDOOR FURNITURE CONSTRUCTION Fig. 2.3. Plywood Screens. For the cabinetmaker who has access to rabbeting dadoing planes or equipment, the construction of a screen with an exposed fr, holding plywood panels will prove a worthwhile project. Such a screen can be constructed, however, of narrow tongue and groove floo: strips with the tongues ripped off and planed down. The uprights are cut same length as those of the wallpaper screen with grooved sides inward, fa( each other. The top and bottom stiles are haunchtenoned into the uprights, v 68 1 X i» ia Plywood- gabbet 40 52 FURNITURE MAKING AND CABINET WOK К the grooves toward the center of the frame. The interior stile, tenoned two thirds of the way up in the frame, must have its tongue replaced by a groove to receive the plywood panel. Panels are cut and fitted into the grooves of the frame before the tenons are fastened and glued. No glue is used on the panels. A more workmanlike job would include curved top stiles and varying widths in the interior and bottom stiles. The framing should be at least % in. thick, with widths as shown in Figure 2.4. The inside of the stiles are grooved (detail A) or rabbeted (detail B) to take the plywood plus quarterround moulding. After their positions are marked on the uprights the latter are rabbeted and the frame glued together with mortise and tenon joints (or dowels). The plywood panels are held in place by the mitered strips of moldings, glued and bradded into place. Tapestry Screens. If desired, the panels can be covered by a favorite tapestry, embroidery, or other material. In the interest of economy, as well as minimum depth for the rabbet, beaverboard or heavy cardboard can be substituted for the plywood when the surface is to be concealed by fabrics or other materials. Nautical Screen. For the marine rumpus room, porch, or boy's den, wider stiles and rails of wellgrained wood are doweled, or mortise and tenoned, so that sailcloth or unbleached muslin can be whipped taut with white cotton rope as shown in A, Figure 2.5. Metal grommets are riveted into the four hems of each of the panels, which can be stenciled with appropriate salty designs. Serpentine Screen. A folding, or more properly "rollup," screen, which can be set up in smoothly flowing semicircles to form serpentine, rounded effects, is easily constructed from halfround moldings glued to light canvas or unbleached muslin. Identical moldings of 5 ft. 8 in. or other suitable length are glued to the fabric front and back, so that their edges coincide, as if they were completely round ej dowels (see B, Figure 25). This is imnortant if the screen is to "hinge"' between INDOOR FURNITURE CONSTRUCTION moldings.