. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. Fig. 21. CHAPTER VIII Candlesticks—The Socket—The Shaft—The Scorer—The Knop—The Base—Fitting Together—Polishing—A Simpler Form of Candlestick Candlesticks FiRST take a disk of silver or copper, 10gage, 3 inches in diameter, beat it into68 Silver Candlesticks CandJesticks a cup as before described. This is tohold the socket of the candle. Nextmake the shaft, which may be six-sidedand tapering. Take a piece of metal ofthe same size, and draw upon it one face of the tapering shaft,and then, using eachsi
. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. Fig. 21. CHAPTER VIII Candlesticks—The Socket—The Shaft—The Scorer—The Knop—The Base—Fitting Together—Polishing—A Simpler Form of Candlestick Candlesticks FiRST take a disk of silver or copper, 10gage, 3 inches in diameter, beat it into68 Silver Candlesticks CandJesticks a cup as before described. This is tohold the socket of the candle. Nextmake the shaft, which may be six-sidedand tapering. Take a piece of metal ofthe same size, and draw upon it one face of the tapering shaft,and then, using eachside of this face asone side of the twoneighboring faces,mark them out also(fig. 23) with a cuttermade out of a fileby bending the tangat right angles (), the end beingsharpened to a chiselpoint, the edge run-ning lengthwise. Cutdown the two innerangles until you havecut half through themetal, bend the sidesto their proper angle, and flush the anglewith silver solder. Repeat this for theother half of the shaft, and tie andsolder the halves together. File up thetwo visible joins clean and smooth. Nowmake the boss (fig. 27) out of 10 gage70
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