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Gazdav
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16 years ago

#21

Sorry to butt in, if you look carefully at the chains in the photo of the tin smith most of them happen to be slave chains.
I belong to a society in West Wales called Wele and we are experimenting with different moulding techniques in cast iron, which is fun especially when reactive moulds are poured.
I have just picked about 100 lbs of iron ore to roast and am going to build a small charcoal blast furnace. We had a charcoal blast furnace at Blackpool near the new Bluestone Holiday Village in the 1680s which was the only one in Pembrokeshire that I know of. That was replaced by a foundry in the late 1700s so this will be the first time a Charcoal blast furnace will have been fired in over 200 years.

Pembrokeshire, The Forgotten Coalfield!

ICLOK
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16 years ago

#22

Wouldn't mind seeing that when you do! Hint Hint 😉

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

Gwyn
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16 years ago

#23

I'd certainly agree that the chains appear to be manacles.
The bucket, bottom right, suggests quenching.
Some of the tools in the foreground are formers and the pliers, in the centre, appear similar to smiths' pincers.
I'm not sure about the disc head tool, bottom left.
I don't think "tin smith" is quite correct: period, political correctness?

Wormster
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16 years ago

#24

"ICLOK" wrote:
Wouldn't mind seeing that when you do! Hint Hint 😉

coff, coff me too

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