Thread: Clark & Hall

Wouldn't you use the sides of the mold to control the depth?

If you put a longer peg in the middle of the mold it would open up the sides and allow flash until to much would just be a leak.

Would be flash from all over! Hold the cooled mold over the pot and trim it off
The rest would go after pinning and trimming and tapping in a bit. Polishing.
They had to have cast the wedges, I think?


We seem to beat our brains out doing it. They had it down-pat.

Our ancestors were not idiots.

There is a reason why things were done even though we might not see it.

Fun to speculate!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Fun to speculate!

And learn.

Our "modern" thoughts and ways" influence us in understanding them and their ways.

Otay...The pair seems different. I dunno,

I'm stumped!
The square holes are different sizes, this throws me off.
It does seem that we in the so modern era often underestimate to intelligence of our ancestors.
They had to really use their brains without tech to fill the gaps..

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Otay...The pair seems different. I dunno,

Those are very similar to the early 1800’s ones with a gap in them, except the gappy ones clearly melted edges. Those look filed.

Originally Posted by 32t

Our ancestors were not idiots.

There is a reason why things were done even though we might not see it.

I’m imagining an assembly process in which several wedge blanks were stacked and clamped on a rod (using the rectangular hole to align and hold them in place) and then filed to shape all at one time. Each final wedge would be finished after the wedge had been peened into place between the scales. Plausible?

These are definitely punched-in from one side....