[TheForge] A different needle question

[Charles]

When this was done by hand and in volume, I believe that I read they simply immersed the needle in a candle flame for a measured time. The time established by experiment, dropping the needle in a bucket of sand which it was then tumbled in for polishing. 

Charles 



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> From: Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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>Take the plate of steel, grind the face clean,
>heat to temper color and plop the needle on the plate
>away from the fire. Then set it aside to cool.
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