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Show Tortoise Shell Tortoise shell is used as veneering in fine cabinet work. . It is cut for such purpose in exactly the same manner 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-aging from one-thirty-second to one-sixteenth one-sixteenth of an Inch in thickness, is cut with a small saw. The knife cut makes from GO to 100 sheets to an Inch. The knife is used something like a plane. The object is fixed on a table and the knife blade works backward back-ward and forward. Tortoise shell was formerly cut by hand, about one-eighth one-eighth of an inch in thickness, and then planed. It may be softened by gentle heat and may then be cut readily. read-ily. x |