10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPITSTICKER»
Discover the use of
spitsticker in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spitsticker and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
tapered lines. The lozenge- shaped graver creates lines that are fine, deep and
of variable width. The square graver widens quicker but creates similar lines.
Spitsticker It has a strange name and is also known as an elliptical or origlette
tool.
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Pictorial Webster's: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities
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e ー argest supp ー ier 。f engraving t。。ー s in America, E' c. Ly。ns, Ca ーー s it
an e ーー iptic tint t00 ー, and their #3 SiZe 且 tS int。 these marks. Spitstickers ...
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The Woodcut Artist's Handbook: Techniques and Tools for ...
... the handle back on with a rubber mallet. Again, remember that in relief printing
you are looking at white lines, not black ones. The image is entirely made with
white lines. Some artists begin by outlining the image with a graver or spitsticker.
George Alexander Walker, 2005
Peter Lawrence Ah ... thefamiliar scrunching sound of the spitsticker cutting its
little channel through a block of perfect type-high boxwood. Not for me. My wood
engravings are done on Resingrave, an artificial substitute for traditional box.
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The technique of wood engraving
The tools used for engraving on wood are as follows : Burin Spitsticker Tint tool
Scorper Multiple cutter Chisel Burin (Figure 2a) The burin is the traditional tool
which has been used in copper engraving for many hundreds of years, and that ...
Engraving tool and faces of tools used. 1 graver, 2 spitsticker, 3 tint tool, 4 round
scorper, 5 square scorper, 6 multiple tool. Barbara Lawrence, NDD, ATD has
exhibited wood engravings at the Royal Academy , the Royal Society of ...
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The complete manual of relief printmaking
Beginners should start with a basic set consisting of one fine spitsticker, one
medium or standard lozenge graver and one medium round scorper. Took for
wood engraving Wood engravers use five types of specialist tools for engraving,
as well ...
Rosemary Simmons, Katie Clemson, 1988
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Metalwork and Enamelling
Mark out and partly form several of the grains. Shift it along and mark some more.
Go right round the rim with it. Then with the spitsticker make the cut between each
grain, down to the scratched line. True up the tops of all the grains with the ...
9
The Foreign Quarterly Review
The instruments generally used for this work are square, but are varied to difl'
erent angles, and are termed the square graver, half lozenge and lozenge graver
, the flat scooper and the spitsticker. The practice I have described is, generally ...
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Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick
... these notes provide a rare glimpse of Bewick at work, for example in cutting flat
letters on a seal: I first of all (after the Letters are accurately drawn out) cut all the
hair strokes of the Tops & botoms of the letters with a Spitsticker, of the depths ...
