smoked tool
A finishing tool. the face of which is covered
with carbon black, which is deposited on the
leather to darken the impression in blind tooling
a book. Originally, the carbon was deposited by
holding the tool over a smoking flame; today,
however, carbon paper is usually used to blacken
the tool. (83 , 152 )
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