i 5 6 THE IDYL OF THE SPLIT-BAMBOO 



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Fig. 2 Silk winding 



pulling toward you and to the right (Fig. 2). The 

 spool-end, E, is rendering from the spool as you hold 

 the latter in your hand, or as it rests in a convenient 

 receptacle to prevent its rolling away. 



The symmetrically-graduated spacing of this first 

 spiral-winding is guided entirely by the eye. For 

 butt-joints, the writer starts the turns spaced from 

 three-quarters to five-eighths of an inch, and grad- 

 ually runs them down to one-half inch apart at the 

 smaller end; on middle-joints, the turns are spaced 

 one-half inch at butt, gradually diminishing to one- 

 quarter inch; and for the top-joint, they run from 

 one-quarter inch down to one-eighth inch at the rod's 

 tip. On the butt-joint he lays up three courses of 

 windings to each spiral, side by side, two courses 

 similarly on the middle- and a single-thread course 

 on the top-joint. 



To know when to terminate the spiral-windings 

 at the female-ferrule end of the joint, you previously 



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Fig. 3 Silk winding 



