"Countersink" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the size of the egg to be operated upon. Drills are to be procured from the various dealers, but can be made from steel wire softened in the fire and filed to a sharp three-cornered point—afterwards tempered to hardness—for the smaller eggs, or filed up for the larger eggs to the pattern of a "countersink" used for wood; indeed, the smallest-sized "countersink" made—to be procured at any ironmonger's—will do very well for eggs the size of a hen's. Capital egg-drills are to be made from "pinion wire" used by watchmakers. ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne |
