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A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)

International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 184

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out 10 inches long and has two cutting edges, about 4 inchesin length; its principal uses are in making drafts, or marginlines, around the edges of stones, and also for dressing the faces,being used after the point, and before the patent hammer. The tooth ax, shown at {e\ has its cutting edges a… … Fig. 1. stones like g-ranite and marble, as the points would quicklybecome dull and need constant sharpening. Thebiisli hammer, shown at (/), is from 4 inches to 8.inches long, with ends from 2 to 4 inches square, cut into anumber of pyramidal points, as shown at a. This hammeris used for finishing…

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