The surface of the table thus serves as a guide to steady the work while the sand-papering is proceeding.
Sand-papering machines are of comparatively recent introduction in wood working establishments, but are found very efficient in finishing surfaces that were formerly finished by hand labor.
A brush attachment (not shown in the cut) is now placed at the end of the machine just beyond the finishing cylinder, which is a most complete device for brushing the material clean after it leaves the sand-papering cylinders.
For sand-papering true flat surfaces the flat table is provided, there being beneath it a parallel revolving drum, whose perimeter just protrudes through the upper surface of the table.
This rising of the grain can in a great measure be prevented by passing a damp sponge over the work before commencing the polishing, allowing it to dry, and papering it.
Apply two thin coats of shellac, sand-papering each coat; then apply three or four coats of Zanzibar polishing varnish, laying it on thin, and giving it sufficient time to dry thoroughly.
The first should include the room devoted to sand-papering and filling.
Another light papering may possibly be needed--dust off as before recommended and let the wood have a third coat of polish.
Winter's jest the time for papering the walls of the shack or fer doing a bit of painting.
The winter months, when the shack was as warm as possible, was just the time when papering and whitewashing could be done.
His home and garden were his hobby: he was always doing something; painting, whitewashing, papering and so forth.
He had been working with Slyme, who waspapering a large boarded ceiling in a shop.
Bundy can fix it this afternoon and then you can go on papering as soon as you like.
I picked out three small rooms with windows looking into the garden, and worked from early morning till night, setting them to rights, putting in new panes, papering the walls, filling up the holes and chinks in the floors.
I expect they've left a mark on the wall-paper where they were taken down, for he said he'd got to do somepapering for himself.
Patsy Kenny was painting and papering his house in the stable yard, in the intervals of his professional labours, whistling over his work.
She had a mania for papering and repapering and papering again every shelf, every box, every corner she could get hold of.
That will mean that if we want to do any whitewashing or papering or matters of that kind we'll have to do it ourselves, but the carpenters will put the house in repair and put up any partitions that we want and so on.
Now it's up to us to do the papering and painting and to concoct some furniture.
Such a comical ladder as this will make the papering of our walls a very slow affair.
As the day was now far advanced, the children resolved not to begin their papering work till the morrow.
I hate this papering nonsense, and I wish that Mr. Learning had been far enough away, rather than come to plague us poor children with his tiresome Reading and Spelling!
The process of learning is a slow one, as every one is likely to know who has done enough of the papering work to be able to read this book;--and as for that troublesome ladder, A.
Just wait till I fetch the can of paste--we'll put Attention into several little pots, and all begin papering our walls together.
So I was comforted; and we went together into every room, recalling how we had decided on the creton and papering for one room in the Windermere woods, and for another, sitting on the grassy slope of Kendal Castle.
It is not great things, but trivial ones, which generally produce the most important and tragic consequences; and it was the fresh papering and painting that made me willing to go through another removal.
The work of papering up the goods is light, and requires little skill.
I believe it is customary, when papering a room, to have one person put the paste on, and another put it up.
When they were paperingthe house the number of area problems connected with buying, cutting, and fitting the paper, were enough to give them all the necessary drill in measurement of areas.
The house is very simply furnished, with cheap and strong things, in plain colors that are easily kept clean; the painting and papering was done by the pupils.
We're papering the dining-room, and besides we haven't a single thing to eat but some stale cake that Mrs. Pike gave us.
We're even paperingthe dining-room for the occasion.
A glass papering of the parts will complete the matter so far as the exterior is concerned.
This may be done with a file, having one side curved, the other flat, and of rather fine tooth; a glasspapering will then complete the process so far as the profile view is concerned.
This having been done to the curving desired by the chief, the glass-papering to a nice even surface and finish is proceeded with, and the operation may be said to be completed.
The process of making the envelope and of papering the insect is accurately depicted in the accompanying cut (Fig.
The first print made after sand-papering the block is liable to be a little less distinct than the others and should therefore be made upon an extra piece of the material.
The first step in the construction is to dress the stock, smoothing, scraping, and sand-papering it, and working the various parts to size.
It is generally wise, also, to give the entire surface a light sand-papering before it is cleaned up for finishing.
If the scraper does not take off the varnish well at certain points, fine sand-papering may be resorted to.
In furniture manufactories sand-papering machines are among the most expensive machines to be found in the shops; and their high cost is of course justified by their productive value.
If a sand-papering machine is within easy reach of the amateur cabinet-maker, it will be very desirable for him to send all large pieces like the tops of tables and panel boards to the factory in order to have them run through the machine.
Care should be taken in sand-papering to rub always with the grain of the wood and to avoid rounding the corners.
In sand-papering by hand considerable pressure should be applied as evenly as possible and always along the grain.
Smoothing with the plane and scraping are very important and they should be completed before any sand-papering is done because particles of sand (silica), adhering to the wood, will dull the steel tools.
Care should be exercised in sand-papering not to round the edges.
The first coating of shellac, therefore, requires careful sand-papering before the varnish is put on.
New Tacking the paper hanging above in the chamber & new papering one roome below stairs.
Said Killcup is ready to pay those he is indebted to, in Painting or Papering Rooms.
Sam had never assisted at the papering of a room before; in fact, it is doubtful if he ever saw a room with clean fresh paper on its walls in all his life, unless in some house he had entered unlawfully.
Sam had reported daily progress with the house and about two weeks before Michael's release from quarantine announced that everything was done, even to the papering of the walls and oiling of the floors.
I wish you had put off your papering till next spring.
It was late in the afternoon before the papering was over, and then great indeed was the bustle in clearing away the litter, cleaning the floors, putting down the carpets, and replacing the furniture.
The underground effect nowhere occurs in Townsend House, because therein true artists have been at work, but one might not be so secure if the papering had been left to less judicious decorators.
For the rest, the walls are covered with a stamped leather papering of large antique scrolls, outlined in gold.
It is usual for the landlord to allow a certain sum for the decoration of a house; but rarely, if ever, does that sum allow of anything like really artistic papering and painting.
The secret was, he set upon the Hamburg Political Journal, with which the lackeys of Schadeck had been for papering their buttons.
In the servants' hall he applied to the lackeys for the last annual series of the Hamburg Political Journal; perceiving that with these historical documents of the time they were scandalously papering the buttons of travelling raiment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "papering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
