83/365 - Today, I did some colouring-in...
I thought I'd put all this kind of thing behind me when I left Junior school...
One of today's charming little tasks at work was to fill the engraved lines in these knobs with engraver's wax, a filthy, repetitive job whereby one rubs the wax crayon into the grooves with a finger, leaves it to warm up on a hotplate, then polishes off the surplus.
So, when you next see something with engraved lines on it, think of the poor sap that has to do the 'colouring-in'!
83/365 - Today, I did some colouring-in...
I thought I'd put all this kind of thing behind me when I left Junior school...
One of today's charming little tasks at work was to fill the engraved lines in these knobs with engraver's wax, a filthy, repetitive job whereby one rubs the wax crayon into the grooves with a finger, leaves it to warm up on a hotplate, then polishes off the surplus.
So, when you next see something with engraved lines on it, think of the poor sap that has to do the 'colouring-in'!