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Title: A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting
Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New
Staffs from the Raw Material

Author: Eugene E. Hall

Release Date: January 8, 2007 [EBook #20317]

Language: English

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A TREATISE

ON

STAFF MAKING

AND

PIVOTING

CONTAINING COMPLETE DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING
AND FITTING NEW STAFFS FROM
THE RAW MATERIAL

EUGENE E. HALL

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

CHICAGO:
HAZLITT & WALKER, PUBLISHERS
1910

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The raw material. The gravers. The roughing out. The hardening
and tempering 5

CHAPTER II.

Kinds of pivots. Their shape. Capillarity. The requirements of
a good pivot 13

CHAPTER III.

The proper measurements and how obtained 19

CHAPTER IV.

The gauging of holes. The side shake. The position of the graver 23

CHAPTER V.

The grinding and polishing. The reversal of the work. The wax
chuck 29

CHAPTER VI.

Another wax chuck. The centering of the work 35

CHAPTER VII.

The finishing of the staff.