Foster, Edwin W. [from old catalog] · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 209
s, and occupies less space than the other. A stone that is soft and gritty, rather than onethat is hard like a piece of granite, should be selected. In holding the tool against the stone, somecommon sense is necessary. The harder one presses,the quicker the grinding, but if there is not plentyof… … TOOLS: PLANES 183 The tool may be moved back and forth acrossthe stone to keep its face true, but never up anddown. This up and down motion is careless andgives the defective edge shown at b (Fig. 112) —very bad grinding. It is an easy matter to test your grinding byoccasionally placing the blade…
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