Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 1024 | After drying the shafts are rubbed with grease and straightened over the View more quotes about heat">heat of a fire. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 1021 | Staves for the lances are cut in the late winter, when the sap is down. |
| 1 | 1022 | Such wood, in the long process of smoking and drying over the lodge fire, which consumes several weeks, seasoning the wood and killing any insects which might remain in it, seldom splits or cracks. |
| 1 | 1023 | Similarly, old-growth wood, or second-growth wood, which is tougher, is preferred over the fresher, less dense first-growth, or new-growth, wood. |
| 1 | 1024 | After drying the shafts are rubbed with grease and straightened over the heat of a fire. |
| 1 | 1025 | Detailed trimming and shaping is accomplished with a small knife. |
| 1 | 1026 | A rubbing with sandstone supplies a smooth finish. |
| 1 | 1027 | The head, of metal, or of bone or stone, with sinew or rawhide, and also sometimes with metal trade rivets, is then mounted on the lance. |
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Staves for the lances are cut in the late winter, when the sap is down.
Such wood, in the long process of smoking and drying over the lodge fire, which consumes several weeks, seasoning the wood and killing any insects which might remain in it, seldom splits or cracks.
Similarly, old-growth wood, or second-growth wood, which is tougher, is preferred over the fresher, less dense first-growth, or new-growth, wood.
After drying the shafts are rubbed with grease and straightened over the heat of a fire.
Detailed trimming and shaping is accomplished with a small knife.
A rubbing with sandstone supplies a smooth finish.
The head, of metal, or of bone or stone, with sinew or rawhide, and also sometimes with metal trade rivets, is then mounted on the lance.
- (Savages of Gor)