The Flame
In almost all of the workshops of artisans a fire burns, either to warm the glue of the carpenter or to keep the irons of the furnace hot.
Burning fire, ephemeral wood, patient wick, the fire is watched under surveillance because it remains feared as a dangerous prisoner who thinks only to escape.
The watchmaker retains what the old catalogues call "a brass lamp for the spirit of wine", that never enlightened! The flame was mainly used to blue the screws arranged on a metal iron held on a long rod. The life of many tools is often extended by jobs for which they are not originally intended.
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