| Show how scissors are made blade though no complexities are involved in the making of scissors ora or much skill required yet the process of manufacture Is very interesting they are forged from good bar steel heated to redness each blade being cut off with sufficient metal to form the shank or that destined to become the cutting part and bow or that w which h ich I 1 later a ter on Is fashioned into the holding portion for the bow a small hole Is punched and this la Is after afterward ivard expanded to the required size by hammering it on a conical anvil after which both thank and bow are lied filed into a anore perfect shape and the hole bored in the middle for the rivet the blades are next ground and the bandies handles hied filed smooth and burnished with oil and emery after which the pairs pain are fitted together and tested as to their easy working they are not yet finished however they have to undergo hardening and tempering and be again adjusted after which they are finally put together again and polished for the third time in comparing the edges of knives and scissors it will be noticed of course that the latter are not in any way EO 60 sharply ground as the former and that in cutting scissors crush and bruise more than knives montreal star |
