. Repoussé work for amateurs : being the art of ornamenting thin metal with raised figures. lii Fig. 25. Water. be impossible to render by engraving the peculiar effectthey produce on the brass; so I leave my readers in thedealers hands, to select for themselves. To produce an evengrounding is not at all easy, and, as the effect of the workgreatly depends upon it, I must impress upon my readersthe importance of using due care in this part of their the tools (with the exception of circular ones) are nevermathematically exact, it will tend greatly to the success ofthe work if one side of
. Repoussé work for amateurs : being the art of ornamenting thin metal with raised figures. lii Fig. 25. Water. be impossible to render by engraving the peculiar effectthey produce on the brass; so I leave my readers in thedealers hands, to select for themselves. To produce an evengrounding is not at all easy, and, as the effect of the workgreatly depends upon it, I must impress upon my readersthe importance of using due care in this part of their the tools (with the exception of circular ones) are nevermathematically exact, it will tend greatly to the success ofthe work if one side of the tool be marked with a file, and WORKING ON PITCH. 53 this side always kept under the thumb. In matting, the toolshould be held quite upright, and the face of it flat on themetal; ,it must also be held firmly, or it will spring off, andgive a blurred impression. It is better to go round the out-line first, and work from there to the centre, so as to avoidhaving partial impressions where they would show the Fig. 26. Grotesque Head. The plate may now be taken off the pitch, and cleaned asI have already described; if the pitch be cold, it will comeoff readily enough. If the work is intended for flat chasingonly, it is now, with the exception of polishing and lacquering,finished; though, of course, if it be at all distorted, it mustbe flattened, the same as if worked on wood or lead. CHAPTER Y1L REPOlJSSE WORt Raised Work—Beating—An Easy Pattern—The Pear—PlasteCasts—Working on the Reverse Side—Tool Marks—Scrolls—Cracking of Brass—Annealing—Setting—Flattening : A GoodMethod for—Hollow Work—The Snarling Iron : How to Use—Flutes—Pierced Work—Watch Cocks. liaised Work.—If the design has to be raised, it will haveto he laid, face downwards, on the block or pan, in exactlythe same way as it was for chasing. The beating tools alreadydescribed and illustrated (Figs. 13, 14, 15) must now be hadrecourse to. We have now come to what is decidedly t
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