The American annual of photography . Figure i. E. W, FULLER. OLD GRIZZLY. Illustrating article Photography and Nature Study, by A. E. Davies. 163. HOME-MADE TIME SAVERS By C. ERWIN AYERS OME years ago, while assisting for a short timein a busy commercial studio, I made two simplelittle devices that saved many moments each was necessary to cut a large number ofpieces of cotton cloth from the web to a size 12in. by 15 in. This was done laboriously with the trimmingboard and took an hour or more each day. I took a piece ofwood 20 inches long, 2 inches wide, and i inch thick. Withsome large
The American annual of photography . Figure i. E. W, FULLER. OLD GRIZZLY. Illustrating article Photography and Nature Study, by A. E. Davies. 163. HOME-MADE TIME SAVERS By C. ERWIN AYERS OME years ago, while assisting for a short timein a busy commercial studio, I made two simplelittle devices that saved many moments each was necessary to cut a large number ofpieces of cotton cloth from the web to a size 12in. by 15 in. This was done laboriously with the trimmingboard and took an hour or more each day. I took a piece ofwood 20 inches long, 2 inches wide, and i inch thick. Withsome large headed tacks fastened an ordinary safety razorblade to one end of the wood so that as it lay upon the shelfthe sharp edge of the blade was up some ^ of an inch abovethe wood; then I marked off 12 inches and 15 inches from theedge of the blade upon the stick, and the device was completealmost in less time than it takes to tell how it was done(Figure i). In using the cutter, I simply placed one edge of the 36-inchway of the cloth against the 12-inch mark on the cutter anddrew the cloth across the razor blade; repeating this from theother sid
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