Practical Carriage and Wagon Painting / A Treatise on the Painting of Carriages, Wagons and Sleighs, Embracing Full and Explicit Directions for Executing All Kinds of Work, Including Painting Factory Work, Lettering, Scrolling, Ornamenting, Varnishing, etc., with Many Tested Recipes and Formulas

by M. C. Hillick

Fig. 4. Round Pencil.
For Stout Line and Round Line.

Fig. 5.

COMBINATION LINES AND STRIPES.

	Hair Line
	Fine Line
	Stout Line
	Round Line
	Narrow Stripe
	Heavy Stripe
	Broad Stripe
	Double Fine Line
	Double Stout Line
	Double Round Line
	Double Round Line Fine Line Center
	Narrow Stripe Parallel Fine Lines
	Full Stripe
	Divided Stripe
	Divided Stripe Distance Fine Line

To make a round fine line pencil suited to the execution of corner pieces and cut up striping generally, take a camel's-hair round pencil of large size, from which extract the desired quantity of hair. Then cut a small piece of cedar down to about 1/8 in. diameter at one end and considerably smaller at the other. In the smaller end insert a pin until it holds firmly. Then, say, 1/4 in. from the wood, clip the pin off. Now shave the stick off until it tapers perfectly down to the pin. Next take the desired quantity of hair, and dipping one end of the brush into shellac, lay aside for a few minutes to permit the shellac to harden. Then insert the pin and tapered point of the wood until the clear working length of the pencil measures at least 1 1/2 in. from point of pin. Begin at the lower end of the hair and wind with strong thread up to within 1/8 in. from point of pin. The pin acts in the capacity of a stiffener to the pencil.