American Blacksmithing, toolsmiths' and steelworkers' manual . Illustrating how fulleringis done after eye (J Showing side view of ham-mer completed with eyespread at c, (which isdone with a fuller whilethe eye pin is in the eyeof the hammer) and ful-lered in at e, with alarger fuller at the finish. Indicating how hammeris forged. TOOLSMITH AND STEELWORKER 49 bellows, he said: *Never heat a piece of steel hotenough to raise a scale, (and of course at that timeI thought the advice was good), however, we workedaway, getting the eye punched, which was quite a hardjob at that low heat,
American Blacksmithing, toolsmiths' and steelworkers' manual . Illustrating how fulleringis done after eye (J Showing side view of ham-mer completed with eyespread at c, (which isdone with a fuller whilethe eye pin is in the eyeof the hammer) and ful-lered in at e, with alarger fuller at the finish. Indicating how hammeris forged. TOOLSMITH AND STEELWORKER 49 bellows, he said: *Never heat a piece of steel hotenough to raise a scale, (and of course at that timeI thought the advice was good), however, we workedaway, getting the eye punched, which was quite a hardjob at that low heat, considering we had a 2 inch squarepiece of steel, but while we were making the hammerwe had other jobs to do as is generally the case in ageneral blacksmith shop, and so occasionally the steelwas left soaking in the fire for half an hour at a time(letting the steel lay in the fire is a bad practice amongblacksmiths and is very injurious to the steel afterbeing hot enough to work). Well, we got it forged to avery good shape, but I was not there when he hardenedand tempered it (as I had given up my job). However,I
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