A softer steel, for saws and springs, takes a shorter period; and a harder steel, for fabricating chisels used in cutting iron, will need longer exposure to the ignited charcoal.
Each has two notches in its circumference, at opposite sides; and in these notches chisels are fixed by screws, to project beyond the rim of the wheel, in the manner of a plane iron before its face.
The chisels are a little broader than the file, sharpened to an angle of about 20 degrees.
The boring chisels are commonly 18 inches long, and from 2 inches and a half to 3 inches and a quarter at their cutting edge, which must be tipped with good steel.
Fine chiselsand graving tools are also used for the better pieces of statuary.
It is afterwards split into thinner sections, by finer chisels dexterously applied to the edges.
It sometimes ends in a cross, formed by two chisels set transversely.
For building purposes stones were got out, dressed, carved and sculptured with stone hammers and chisels made of hard and tenacious rock.
With a gouge carve out the hollows neatly, and then with your flat chisels attack the cranium, round off its angles, and so work over the entire skull.
In cutting out these grooves, I use a saw for certain bones, and gouges and stone-mason's chisels for others, according to circumstances.
The axes and chisels of stone are so exactly like those found in Europe that it is quite impossible to distinguish them.
Wood chisel: Chisels for cutting wood can be made from a piece of gas pipe and a piece of steel, or from old cold chiselstoo short for use.
Hot and cold chisels are both used for cutting iron.
He, in turn, chisels out of a steel block, about 7 ins.
Cape chisels are used mostly for cutting key ways in shafting.
Illustration: Cold Chisel] Cold chisel: Cold chisels are usually made out of 5/8-in.
They are tempered in the same way as cold chisels are treated.
Stone chisels are made out of the above sizes of steel, in sets, for the cutting of marble, sandstone, granite, etc.
These chisels make the best kind of tools for rough, heavy work.
All stone chisels are made with this rounding end so that wood mallets can be used for driving purposes.
Most of those found within Stonehenge are broken fragments struck off in the process of repointing flintchisels during the erection of the circle.
Here stood the forms of Pitt, Fox, Burke, Sheridan and Watts, from the chisels of Chantry, Bacon and Westmacott.
The millpeck is a little tool like a double adze, or perhaps rather like two chisels set in the head of a mallet.
There seemed no end to the number of his chisels and augers; some of the augers of immense size.
There was also another way of adapting for use the stone chiselsand hammers.
The chisels and gouges equally merit a special mention.
Close to my heart lay one of the sharp, shining chisels I had taken from the glazier in the bath-room.
I obtained adequate specimens, but found my chisels too highly tempered, and my hammer not heavy enough to separate large masses.
It was impossible to procure any specimens, for such was its hardness that our chisels broke like glass.
The quantity may, however, have been much diminished since its discovery, and the marks of chisels and axes upon it, with the discovery of broken tools, prove that portions have been cut off and carried away.
Some, however, evidently belonged to the individuals in whose tombs they were buried, and appear to have been used; and the chisels often bear signs of having been beaten with the mallet.
Sitting up like a squirrel, and clutching the end of the root with both little forepaws, she crushed the white esculent into her mouth and gnawed at it ravenously with the keen chisels of her teeth.
With the long, keen chisels of his front teeth, he attacked the wood eagerly,--and the loud sound of his gnawings echoed on the stillness.
There are two sculptors, who, with chisels fine, Render the plainest features half divine.
Here are no sounds of discord--no profane Or senseless gossip of unworthy things-- Only the songs of chisels and of pens.
The hammers and chisels of mercy all over the mountain of the militant church.
Many hammers and chisels were upon him from Bethlehem to Calvary; but they were all appointed of God, as the instruments of his preparation to be the sure foundation and chief corner-stone of the church.
We afterwards found some ice-chisels in possession of the Esquimaux, twelve or fourteen inches long and half an inch in diameter, formed of pure copper.
At 490, a brown color appears, which is the indication of a temper proper for shears, scissors, garden hoes, and chisels intended for cutting cold iron.
Look at the teeth of the ripping-saw and you will see that they are little chisels sharp only at the end (Fig.
The plane-iron is sharpened in the same way as the chisel, only, being wider than most of the chisels you are likely to use, it requires more care to sharpen.
As we used little knives to cut across the grain, so we use little chisels to cut with the grain.
Bronze gouges and chiselsare among the most common of these, though hitherto apparently less frequently noted in Scotland than in England and Ireland.
Other implements of this period are chisels of flint, nearly resembling those of Norway and Denmark.
Blacksmiths in this country secure their coldchisels much in the same manner.
We afterwards found some ice-chisels in possession of the latter people twelve or fourteen inches long, and half-an-inch in diameter, formed of pure copper.
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