The painter, gilder, and varnisher's companion: containing rules and regulations in every thing relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, and glass staining .. . arge as to make it difficultfor the workman, with a moderate exertion of the strengthof his arms, to keep it in continual motion) the usual size is from two to three inches in diameterat the flat end, and about five inches high. In choosingit, the principal points to be observed are, that the sur-face is perfectly smooth and the edges well rounded off. An excellent substitute for the common grindstoneand muller
The painter, gilder, and varnisher's companion: containing rules and regulations in every thing relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, and glass staining .. . arge as to make it difficultfor the workman, with a moderate exertion of the strengthof his arms, to keep it in continual motion) the usual size is from two to three inches in diameterat the flat end, and about five inches high. In choosingit, the principal points to be observed are, that the sur-face is perfectly smooth and the edges well rounded off. An excellent substitute for the common grindstoneand muller, but confined in its application to the grind-ing of colours in a dry state, has been invented by Taylor, of Manchester, England, and is repre-sented by Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 1 represents a mortar, made of marble or otherhard stone. One made in the usual form will answer. M is a muller or grinder, made nearly in the form ofa pear, in the upper part of which an iron axis is firmlyfixed; which axis, at the parts marked N, N, turns ingrooves, or slits, made in two pieces of oak, projecting AND VARNISHERs COMPANION. 9 TAYLORS INDIGO 1. Fig. horizontally from a wall, &c.; and when the axis is atwork, it is secured in the grooves by the iron pins 0, O, P, the handle, which forms a part of the axis, and byturning which the grinder is worked. Q, the wall, &c., in which the oak pieces, N, N, are fixed. R, a weight, which may occasionally be added, if more power is wanted. Fig. 2 shows the muller or grinder with its axis sepa- 10 THE PAINTER, GILDER, rate from the other machinery: its bottom should bemade to fit the mortar. S, a groove cut through the stone muller. The muller being placed in the mortar, and securedin the oak pieces by means of the pins, the colour to beground is thrown into the mortar, above the muller; onturning the handle, the colour in lumps falls into thegioove cut through the muller; and is from thencedrawn in under the action of the
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