ally fol- lowed hy the best makers is to draw out the pick with an anvil and hammer, both of which have very smooth faces, and the steel is heated not above a dark clierry red. When it comes to finishing, the best artisans claim the steel should be hammered only on the flat side, and the! lighter… … sufficient to scate—and when the redness leaves it is not hammered; it is hardened by heating to alow red heat, dipping in a brake strap operated by a lever. The drum is in two warm salt water, and tempered to a brown; while with the parts, the larger portion fixed on the shaft and the smaller…
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