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The brassfounder's manual : instructions for the modelling, pattern-making, moulding, alloying, turning, filing, burnishing, bronzing, etc., etc. ... (1879)

Graham, Walter · London : Crosby Lockwood and Co. · leaf 37

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in the fluting of a column shaft. The same thing occurs in casting some leaves (Fig. 11), or similar work. In column capitals, richly ornamented, four, six, or eight cores are usually employed, as the case may require. Thus, from the simplest of core cast- rig. 11.— Leaf. ings to the highest and… … Fig. 12.~-Core Boxes. The first of the above figures {a) represents sliding bars on a wooden board for making square cores ; the second (b), a tin mould for tapered cores; and the third {c), a metal box for cylindrical cores. Cores,

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