Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson (1903)
Wilson, H · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 237
placeon the lid of the box. CHAPTER XXVI Moldings—The Swage-Block—Filing the Grooves—Drawing the Metal Moldings poR this you will need a swage-block (seefig. 152) with movable dies (see figs. 153 and 154). In the upper surface of one of the diesfile a groove of the shape of the moldingyou require… … Moldings with great care, as the smallest mark willshow on the molding. Now cut a stripof metal slightly thicker and wider than the proposed molding.Having annealed it,pass one end throughthe groove you havemade in the swage-block, and screw theplain block down soas to press slightly onthe metal.…
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