Re: Hermathena and Cicero

Conrad wrote:

> Does anyone remember the book "Counterpunch" which Robin Kinross's
> Hyphen Press published some years ago? I lost many of my books last
> year and so I can't recall the author's name. I was touched by the
> part where the author described learning to hand-cut the punches for
> making the matrices for casting metal type, and how various blends of
> elements that make up the steel, and how the steel blanks were
> treated in the cooling process, meant that you could create one bit
> of steel with a hard, sharp edge, and another bit of steel that could
> be carved "like butter" with the first piece.

here: http://www.hyphenpress.co.uk/books/978-0-907259-42-8

yes, "like butter" is one of the highpoints of this book. In fact  
Fred Smeijers suggests that *all* steel is like butter, when you are  
cutting with a piece of hardened steel formed into this sharp  
engraving tool -- a "graver" in English.

Robin Kinross
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