. Modern blacksmithing, rational horse shoeing and wagon making; with rules, tables, recipes, etc. .. . nows how they are shaped. There is,however, no need of buying these; every smith has oldplowshares from which points can be cut, provided youdont use an old share too much worn. The pointssold are cut with the intention that most of the pointis to be placed on top of the plow point. This is allright in some instances, while it is wrong in you cut a piece for a point make it the sameshape at both ends. Now, when a plow needs themost of the point on top bend the end to be on toplon
. Modern blacksmithing, rational horse shoeing and wagon making; with rules, tables, recipes, etc. .. . nows how they are shaped. There is,however, no need of buying these; every smith has oldplowshares from which points can be cut, provided youdont use an old share too much worn. The pointssold are cut with the intention that most of the pointis to be placed on top of the plow point. This is allright in some instances, while it is wrong in you cut a piece for a point make it the sameshape at both ends. Now, when a plow needs themost of the point on top bend the end to be on toplonger than the end to go underneath, and vice versa, MODERN BLACKSMITHING 105 when the point wants to be heaviest on the bottomside. I hold that in ordinary cases the most of thepoint should be on the bottom side. If it is it willwear better and keep in the ground longer, for as soonas the point is worn off underneath it comes out of theground. Dont monkey with old mower sections or anythinglike them for points, for, although the material is good,it is not the quality alone but also the quantity that. JAPANESE PLOW goes to make up a good point. It takes only a fewhours plowing to wear off a section from the extremepoint of the share, and then there is only the iron ofthe plow point left to wear against, and your timespent for such a point is lost. Another thing, it takes•just as much time to put on such a point as it does toput on a good one for which you charge the regularprice. In putting on a point of thin material you must gounusually slow, or you will burn the steel before theplow point is hot. io6 MODERN BLACKSMITHING Smiths, as a rule, draw out a round back seem to be afraid of coming down on the pointwith the hammer for fear it will spring the pointtowards the land. This can be remedied by using awooden block for anvil. Then you can set the pointback without battering the edge of the share. The
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