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Updated: June 19, 2025
Following the above is the careful rounding of the edges of under and upper tables with files and glass-paper, as previously shown on the inner edges of the back and belly. Before that, however, we have to consider the cutting of the scroll. On plate 19 you will find the outline of a scroll I use generally.
And as a roughness is bound to show itself as stage after stage is passed, it is well to smooth down each course when dry with fine No. 0 glass-paper upon which is first spread a drop of pure Lucca oil, which, of course, must be lightly applied to the body of varnish, and the whole carefully wiped with clean linen or silk handkerchief afterwards.
It is necessary to have the wood firmly cramped to the bench on all occasions. The next step is to soften the work done, and to smooth down with rough to fine glass-paper, wetting every part after each course.
She had plates of steel to polish, and pieces of wood to rub smooth with glass-paper. There were sheets of brass and copper, and bars and lumps of steel, and great poles and planks of timber reared up round the walls of the workshop. The metal filings fell from Nicky's lathe into sawdust that smelt deliciously.
For the outside a slightly different treatment will be preferable, that is, a portion of glass-paper of the finest grain placed as before in front of a block of wood. There is no necessity for it being a very close fit so long as it is even in surface. This should have some oil of a drying nature put on the surface, a little dabbed on with the tip of the finger will be enough.
Different varieties of wood have been tried, a great drawback being the contraction when the glue dries; this is markedly the case when a hard wood, powdered by glass-paper, is used. The granulations and their hardness are also objectionable, and if ground up too small, contraction to a greater degree takes place, and the repairer's object is defeated.
If the fitting has been very accurately effected there will not remain much to do in this line. For the inside a piece of glass-paper folded over a curved block of wood, or the actual mould that has been in use, will serve the purpose if not too large. This can be rubbed backward and forward till the surface is level.
To this line I cut with bow saw 68; and I then use all the knives I have, and many files rasps in the early stages until I get to the shape I want, after which I wet with a sponge, renewing the work when dry with finer files and glass-paper, No. 1-1/2, making a second stage, then wet again, to two more stages, when all should be very clean and nice.
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