"Block of metal" Quotes from Famous Books
... sharp tools, and he does not turn his teapot out of a solid block of metal. His tool is a hard piece of wood, something like a child's hoop-stick, and fixed to the spinning-round part of the lathe, the "chuck," as a workman would call it, is a solid block of smooth wood shaped like a ... — Patience Wins - War in the Works • George Manville Fenn |