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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 462

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indeednear its edge, you will probably have madewhat boys call a wire-edge. One of thephotographs shows this wire-edge. The steelhas been cut into little saw teeth, it is true, butthey are so thin that they break easily—howthin the steel is can be guessed from the littleholes in the edge which have… … THE EDGE OF A NEWLY-HONED KAZOR-BLADE.(Greatly Magnified.) edge is left, which is neither sharp nor smooth.Dont hold a knife flat on the stone—hold itat an angle so that from an eighth to a quarter ofan inch of blade is being ground and when youput it on the oil stone, hold at the same angle. 450…

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