In his hands the narrator holds what looks like a sponge, but is actually a twelve mile length of copper filament finer than the finest silk.

Is this 'filament' the copper that was carved off of the copper surface by the lathe?
- anonymous

Yes, the lathe cuts an extremely fine copper filament twelve miles in length as it forms the grooves in the surface of the master.
- Tom Howe

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