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Excerpt from The Students' Illustrated Guide to Practical Draughting: A Series of Practical Instructions for Machinists, Mechanics, Apprentices, and Students at Engineering Establishments and Technical InstitutesA machinist cannot do good or rapid work with dull, badly tempered tools, neither can the draughtsman produce fine, creditable drawings with dull, clumsy, badly-jointed and pointed, unadjusted, disproportioned drawing instruments. A few first-class instruments are infinitely more valuable than a great number of inferior ones. Explicitness on this subject is desirable. Beginners in the Study of practical draughting may assure themselves that if there is anv one time more than another when they need good instruments. It is when they commence to learn.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.