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Carpentry Merit Badge (Boy Scouts)
- 1: Demonstrate the use of the rule, square, level, plumb-line, mitre, chalk-line and bevel.
- 2: Demonstrate the proper way to drive, set, and clinch a nail, draw a spike with a claw-hammer, and to join two pieces of wood with screws.
- 3: Show correct use of the cross-cut saw and of the rip-saw.
- 4: Show how to plane the edge, end and the broad surface of a board.
- 5: Demonstrate how to lay shingles.
- 6: Make a simple article of furniture for practical use in the home or on the home grounds, finished in a workmanlike manner, all work to be done without assistance.