You Will Never Fail, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Recipe for Tempering Edge Tools emery Stable now with drawing bright

Stable now with drawing bright and crisp

and it would make an excellent platform/pedestal for sorts for all sorts of things

automotive tools

I am especially partial to the King Fisher

extra lovely and extra special feeling

You Will Never Fail, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Recipe for Tempering Edge Tools emery Stable now with drawing brightA Reipt [I believe meant as receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century] to tempur [sic] edge tools. Take 5th of tallow, 1 1 2th of hard sope [sic], 1th of beeswax, 1th of horse hoof, 1th of salt first fry the horses foot [crossed out] hoof in the tallow then take out the horse hoof then boil it all together and put it in a troft [sic] large enough to temper any tool then heat the tool a chery [sic] red and stick it in and leave it be