 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Fishing - 1832 - 356 pages
...receive the bar made by the edge of the file. The barb being made, the shank is thinned and flattened, and the polishing file applied to it, and by a turn...has been heated in the same fire, till it becomes a bright blue, and, whilst still hot, it is immersed in candle-grease, where it gains a black colour... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1832 - 690 pages
...receive the bar made by the edge of the file. The barb being made, the shank is thinned and flattened, and the polishing file applied to it, and by a turn...has been heated in the same fire, till it becomes a bright blue, and, whilst still hot, it is immersed in candle-grease, where it gains a black colour... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Fishing - 1833 - 218 pages
...receive the bar made by the edge of the file. The barb being made, the shank is thinned and flattened, and the polishing file applied to it, and by a turn...hot, into cold water ; then tempered, by being put on kon that has been heated in the same fire, till it becomes a bright blue, and, while still hot, it... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1852 - 258 pages
...reeeive the bar, made by the edge of the file. The barb being made, the shank is thinned and flattened, and the polishing file applied to it ; and by a turn of the wrist round a eireular pineers, the neeessary degree of eurvature is given to it. The hook is then eut from the bar,... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1870 - 334 pages
...receive the bar, made by the edge of the file. The barb being made, the shank is thinned and flattened, and the polishing file applied to it ; and by a turn...that has been heated in the same fire till it becomes a bright blue, and, whilst still hot, it is immersed in candle-grease, where it gains a black colour... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1886 - 596 pages
...the bar, made by the edge of the file. The barb being made, the the shank is thinned and flattened, and the polishing file applied to it ; and by a turn...to it. The hook is then cut from the bar ; heated red-hot, by being kept for a moment in a charcoal fire ; then plunged, while hot, into cold water ;... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1886 - 602 pages
...receive the bar, made by the edge of the file. The barb being made, the shank is thinned and flattened, and the polishing file applied to it ; and by a turn...degree of curvature is given to it. The hook is then cat from the bar ; heated red-hot, by being kept for a moment in a charcoal fire ; then plunged, while... | |
 | English periodicals - 1843 - 522 pages
...receive the bar, made by the edge of the file. The barb being made, the shank is thinned and flattened, and the polishing file applied to it; and by a turn...to it. The hook is then cut from the bar ; heated red-hot by being kept for a moment in a charcoalfire ; then plunged, while hot, into cold water ; then... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1886 - 590 pages
...receive the bar, made by the edge of the file. The barb being made the shank is thinned and flattened, and the polishing file applied to it; and by a turn...given to it. The hook is then cut from the bar, heated red-hot, by being kept for a moment in a charcoal fire; then plunged, while hot, into cold water; then... | |
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... than the other, for giving the point and polishing the hook, and he begins by making the barb, taking care not to cut too deep, and filing on a piece of hard wood, such as box-wood, with a dent to receive the bar made by the edge of the file. The... 