A steel chisel should be used for chopping rough edges or removing refractory stilts.
The rest on the lathe is clamped in a convenient position and a cutting chisel held as shown (Fig.
The zinc is roughly cut to shape with shears and then finished with a file to a chisel edge (see cut).
Not to chisel ornaments, But to chisel with free stroke the heads and limbs of plenteous supreme Gods, that the States may realize them walking and talking.
Not to chisel ornaments, But to chisel with free stroke the heads and limbs of plenteous Supreme Gods, that The States may realize them, walking and talking.
The first series starts northwards from the central doorway, and here the chisel literally reproduces the legend of S.
And at Reims several of the statues would seem to be from the same chisel as those at Chartres.
These poor Norman workmen departed on a new crusade, as it were, of chisel and trowel to offer their labour for the adornment of Our Lady's Church.
The iron hardness of the miraculous stone yields to the untiring application of chisel and mallet, and beneath their ceaseless blows its formless mass by degrees becomes shapely.
I soaked some of 'em all day and to-night took one over to the shop and cut it open with a chisel to see if it was real leather, or only imitation.
The Venners rattled on their foundations, and the plates had been scarred as if by a chisel in the hands of a maniac.
No, simply took a chisel and hammer and cut the lock out.
The things I was looking for," and Ned held up to view in the faint gleam from the burned building a cold chisel and a hammer.
The robber, or robbers, had used a cold chisel and a hammer, and cut out a section of the door around the big clumsy lock.
The lantern made the light that puzzled me that night I came past, and with this cold chisel and hammer the lock was cut out.
On the night of the mill fire," Jerry went on, "we found the hammer and chisel that were used to cut the safe open, and also the dark lantern.
When a new nest is to be constructed, the bee proceeds to chisel sufficient space for it out of the wood with her jaws.
These holes in course of time become square, and the pillars, originally arched at both ends, are worked into regular columns by the chisel of our sculptors.
The hammer and cold chisel will be necessary, and about three hours should be allowed to stay, taking the noon train from New York there, and the 5.
These Indians possess very few axes, and the only tool they employ, from felling the tree to the delicate workmanship of the images, is a chisel made of an old file, about an inch or an inch and a half in width.
Too often marriageable young women and their anxious mothers demand the complete statue at the outset, and are not content to accept and chisel granite.
The Romanesque style of all the buildings gave fine opportunity to introduce elaborate carvings about the entrance arches, and across the façades to chisel quaint faces above the windows, and grotesque heads out of corbels at the eaves.
The artist makes use of colors previously existing when he would produce a painting, and of marble already in the block, when he would chisel a statue or a temple.
As if to corroborate Grant's statement, a chisel and a pistol were found in the grass under the window of his bedroom.
True, a chisel and pistol had been found, but how easy for the prisoner to have placed them there to carry out his plans!
He was standing, as it seemed, on the ledge of the pedestal, and a sculptor's chisel was in one hand and a mallet in the other.
Just at this bend raise a burr with a sharp chisel to keep the washer on.
It is necessary, however, tochisel the sides of the mortises carefully, but this is a simple matter compared with getting the shoulders of the tenons, etc.
Illustration: Detail of the Sewing Box] Chisel out recesses in the posts so that the bottom may be inserted.
Cut the grooves with a chisel or plow plane to a depth of 1/4 in.
By this time, the Indian was at work with his knife, and he soon passed the chisel in to the prisoner, who seized it, and commenced cutting into the logs, at a point opposite to that where the Tuscarora was whittling away the wood.
By way of bringing matters to an understanding, the Indian thrust the chisel through the opening, and, moving it, he soon attracted Willoughby's attention.
Instead of supporting a triangular façade, each pillar stands separate and bears a marble statue from the chisel of Schwanthaler.
We have since seen in the St. Michael's Church the monument to Eugene Beauharnais from the chisel of Thorwaldsen.
If I had a chisel or a strong-bladed knife I could force the lock back without doing any damage at all.
With hammer and chisel the carpenter loosened the irons.
These projections must be rounded by taking off the corners with a sharp chisel or knife.
In cutting the ports you will find a sharp chisel the best tool to use, particularly if you are operating on thick millboard.
With hammer and chisel we can knock out as many as we please.
He still uses a ground-ash sapling to hold the short chisel with which he cuts off the glowing iron on the anvil.
But it is still as safe as if it had been cut yesterday, because the smooth round mass of the pillar is entirely undisturbed; into that, furrows are cut with a chisel as much under command and as powerful as a burin.
Why not cut out white spaces, and use the chisel as if its incisions were so much white paint?
Sticks of hard, pointed rubber are everywhere sold, which, cut in a chisel shape, work beautifully on red chalk drawings.
And if the broad side of the chisel point is used when a dark mass is wanted, the edge can constantly be kept sharp.
Very high finish was seldom attempted, the marks of the chisel often being left showing in the stonework.
A cold chisel is apparently the ordinary sort ofchisel which you chisel with; what a hot chisel is I never discovered.
