Duchesne Courier | 1924-05-02 | Page 7 | Tortoise Shell

Tortoise f Shell Tortoise shell sheIl is used as as veneering In fine cabinet t work It It Is cut for such purpose In exactly the same manner man manner manner man man- ner as any of the fine woods There are two grades of thickness the saw cut and the knife cut The first averaging aver averaging river aver aging from thirty second to one- one sixteenth of an au Inch In thickness is cut with a small saw The Tho knife cut makes from GO 60 to sheets to an anInch Inch The knife Is used something like Ike a plane The object Is fixed on a table and the knife e blade works backward backward backward back back- ward and forward Tortoise shell was formerly cut b bj by hand band about one one- eighth of an Inch incle In thickness and then planed It may be softened by gentle heat and rutty may then be cut read read- fly ily