—The etching tool must be heated in either an alcohol or a Bunsen flame. You can make an alcohol lamp of an ink bottle that will serve the purpose very well. Make a hole in the cork about ¹⁄₄ inch in diameter and make a tin tube 1 inch long that will fit it snugly. Braid a wick of string and put it through the tin-tube; fill the bottle with alcohol and your lamp is done. If you can get gas you can use a Bunsen burner[16] which makes a hotter flame and is less trouble.
[16] Can be bought of the L. E. Knott Apparatus Company, Boston, Mass.
A Better Outfit.
—A good outfit which has a platinum pointed tool and burns alcohol vapor, see [C], can be bought for $3.00 and more.[17] If you have gas in your house you can buy a tool which uses it for 50 cents or less.
[17] Everything needed for pyrography can be had of the Frost and Adams Co., Cornhill, Boston.
C—AN OUTFIT THAT BURNS ALCOHOL VAPOR
Fig. 26c. an outfit that burns benzine vapor
About the Designs.
—If you are good at drawing you can make your own designs, but if not you can buy them ready to use. Draw your designs on soft white pine or basswood with a soft lead pencil having a blunt point. Photo frames, plaques, tie racks, collar boxes and things which you can saw out on your scroll saw are greatly improved by burning.