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
THE BRASSFOUNDER's MANUAL. False Cores (Fig. 10), whicli are only inserted a short way into the mould, as, lor example, 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… … rig. 11.— Leaf. ings to the highest and most complicated, the same principle pervades, and. the same plans are adopted, though often requiring considerable skill, practice, and neat manipulation. Cores are usually made in core-boxes (Fig. 12). Fig. 12.~-Core Boxes. The first of the above figures…
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