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The entrance way hardware on your home may seem like a small detail. In reality it is an important consideration. When deciding on hardware for your home, brass is always a good selection. It is available in many finishes, has a long life and is easily maintained. Before you purchase, you must be prepared for some surprises, you [...] Shayler Engraving and Your-Door-Knocker.com will be conducting an outdoor open air foundry demonstration. It will take place at the 8th annual Charlestown Township Summer Festival, August 7, 2010 from 3:00 – 5:00. Equipment demonstration and instruction in patterns and mold making will be offered. Weather permitting we will actually melt brass and pour castings on the site. [...] Like many others, when we thought about a foundry, our mind’s eye immediately pictured a steaming hot crucible pouring rd hot molten metal into a mold. That, we imagined, was all that takes place in the foundry. Granted, the pouring of the metal is probably the most exciting part, but it is a very small part nonetheless. There is a lot of work to do to get to that point. [...] It has been some time since the last writing. This is because we have been extremely busy bringing our small foundry online. [...] The foundations of our current products are not evolved from new technology. The skills have been around as long as man has been working with metals and wood. [...] Over the years I have worked on thousands of brass door knockers. This was the first time I experienced the actual birth of one. [...] The brass door knocker selection offered by Your-Door-Knocker is produced in foundries by the sand casting method. This method involves pouring molten brass into a mold made of sand and letting it cool to form a casting. [...] Our experience in the foundry making our brass door knocker didn’t start in the foundry at all. As a matter of fact there is a lot of work to be done before the foundry work can even begin. First of all we need something to cast. We call this the pattern. It seems that our brass door [...] The posts have been scarce lately as I have been spending a good deal of time in the foundry with the development of our latest brass door knocker design. Two years ago I would have never imagined actually creating our own castings. Until now we have sourced our castings from production foundries many located in another [...] |
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