V. 
TOOLS AND OTHER REQUISITES. 
TOOLS BEST SUITED FOR THE BEGINNER. 
; AS I have already said, Jet nobody imagine that 
the operation can be successfully performed 
without the proper tools. They need not necessa- 
rily be expensive. Indeed, such tools as I have 
found most serviceable can be bought for about 
$2.50 aset. I have {tried the sets of several differ- 
ent makers, and’ most of them serve their purpose 
quite well, although none are perfect. At present I 
prefer a combination of several. A per- 
fect set should consist, first, of a knife 
or lance. Inan emergency, an ordinary pocket knife, 
sharpened to a razor edge, might answer, but it 
has not the best shape for the work, and is a make- 
shift at best. A lance as shown in Fig. 3, and made 
of a piece of steel one-sixteenth of an inch thick, 
The Lance. 
Fig. 3. THE KNIFE OR LANCE. 
seven sixteenths of an inch wide and about six 
inches long, rounded off to a point on one side and 
end, is just the thing. Have an oil-stone handy and 
