Subject: Re: MtMan-List: "Ballistics" And Gravity Off-Topic ???
Hi George, this is from the NRA Factbook, 3rd addition;
pg 234; Time of Fall High school physics teachers often use an
example from the world of firearms to demonstrate the independence of
accelerations, forces and velocities. The example is that, if a gun is
fired horizontally over level ground and a slug dropped at the same
instant from the muzzle, the slug and bullet would both strike the ground
at the same time. This would be quite true if the experiment took
place in the airless environment of outer space. On the surface of the
earth, where most of us do our shooting, however, the additional force of
air drag must be taken into account. If air drag were directed only
horizontally, it would make no difference to the speed with which the
bullet falls. But because of the downward curve of the bullet's flight,
and the fact that its point usually does not lie exactly in the direction
of its flight, the drag has a slight upward component that resists the
bullet's fall. So the horizontally-fired bullet in a resisting medium
like air takes a little longer to reach the ground than a slug dropped
from the muzzle.
hope this helps... hardtack
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:24:08 -0600
From: agottfre@telusplanet.net (Angela Gottfred)
Subject: RE: MtMan-List: Trek vs jaunt (revisited)
In the 1774-1821 Canadian fur trade journals I've read, the two most common
words I recall are "voyage" (very common) and (I think) "journey". Nobody
"explores" in these journals; instead, they "go on discoveries".
Your humble & obedient servant,
Angela Gottfred
It is startling how much someone who has handled an ax for years can learn
in a millisecond from mishandling an ax. --David Gidmark, _Birchbark Canoe_
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Date: 5 Oct 1999 15:32:40 -0700
From: turtle@uswestmail.net
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Health ISSUES W/Metals.
> Hey, as much lead as you and Turtle have been around, take this to heart and really look into this and the blood tests, I'm going to have a "blood test" and do the "hair tests".
>
> Then make my own mind up to which direction I should go with, and one will double check the other to a point from what I have read - good information for anyone in this sport.
> Later,
> Buck Conner
Following with much interest gang.
Thanks
Take care - we leave as friends,
Lee "Turtle" Boyer
Historical Advisor - Parks & Rec.
State College, Pennsylvania
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 15:57:53 -0700
From: Mark Robbins <flak88@isomedia.com>
Subject: MtMan-List: wire Inlay suggestions
Did a search online and in my Dixie Gun work '96 catalog, did'nt find
anything remotely close. Does anyone know of a source for wire inlay
patterns. Is there a book or are there books available? So far even site
that feature wood working don't have anything on wire inlays... I've pretty
much decided on making my own designs, but would like some eye candy to
browse first.
HELP........
tia,
Mark
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 17:16:48 -0700
From: "John C. Funk, Jr." <J2Hearts@norcalis.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: wire Inlay suggestions
Mark,
Probably of no help but either Muzzle Blasts or Muzzle Loader had a two part
article re. How to Wire Inlay. The bad part is I can't remember when but I
think it was within the last 36 issues, (3 years). SORRY I can't be more
specific. It was a good article and I think showed and told how to make
various patters. I'm sure others with better memories can help.
John Funk
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From: Mark Robbins <flak88@isomedia.com>
To: <hist_text@xmission.com>; <bptechlist@onelist.com>; <mlml@list.vnet.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 3:57 PM
Subject: MtMan-List: wire Inlay suggestions
> Did a search online and in my Dixie Gun work '96 catalog, did'nt find
> anything remotely close. Does anyone know of a source for wire inlay
> patterns. Is there a book or are there books available? So far even site
> that feature wood working don't have anything on wire inlays... I've
pretty
> much decided on making my own designs, but would like some eye candy to
> browse first.
>
> HELP........
>
>
> tia,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 20:49:14 -0400
From: Bob Spencer <bspen@aye.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: wire Inlay suggestions
>Probably of no help but either Muzzle Blasts or Muzzle Loader had a two part
>article re. How to Wire Inlay.
This may not be what you are thinking of, but Muzzleloader had a two-part
series on inlays of all types, including wire, in the Nov/Dec 1995 and
Jan/Feb 1996 isues. It is Peter A. Alexander's Gunsmith of Grenville County
article. He covers wire inlay pretty well as far as material, tools and
technique are concerned, but has little to say about patterns.
Bob
Bob Spencer <bspen@aye.net>
Louisville, KY
http://members.aye.net/~bspen/index.html
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:40:34 -0500
From: "Texan" <texan@cowtown.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Health Issue#2 Lead Data Sheet#2
Lead Data Sheet #2
The information presented in this data sheet was the ôlatest and the
greatestö information available on heavy metal toxicity in the mid eighties.
This is when I was forced to face this issue in my own life. Although I
have continued with my research on heavy metal
toxicity through the years, the information presented from the book
mentioned below continues to be the most succinct. PLEASE REMEMBER that your
exposure in your lead based activities is IN ADDITION to the baseline
exposure for ALL of us who live in the twentieth century.
This data is taken from Trace Elements, Hair Analysis and Nutrition,
authored by Richard A. Passwater, Ph.D. and Elmer M. Cranton, M.D.
Passwater is a biochemist, and Cranton is a graduate of Harvard Medical
School and is a board certified medical specialist by the American Board of
Family Practice.
Lead is considered the worst pollutant element. Arsenic and other elements
may
be more toxic poisons, but lead is more dangerous because it is so
widespread in our environment. Dr. William Strain, director of the trace
element laboratory at Cleveland
Metropolitan General Hospital, calls lead pollution ô...the greatest
neurotoxin (nerve damaging substance) threat to all mankind. It is a damn
epidemic.ö
The typical person today has more lead in his or her body than is compatible
with health. More than 400,00 tons (substantially more today-VP) of
industrial lead now pour into the atmosphere every year. As it settles back
to earth, it covers the surface of all exposed soils, plants and window
sills. Slowly, but insidiously, it works its way into the body--and
brain--of modern man.
Lead contamination is now so widespread that scientists are having trouble
gauging the effect that it has on man. It is too difficult to find anyone
who hasnÆt been exposed to it.
Scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science
meeting in 1981 agreed there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that
modern civilization--at least in a clinical sense--may be slowly going the
way of the Roman Empire.
In the laboratories of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Dr. Ellen K.
Silbergeld has found that even extremely low levels of lead have a
measurable, detrimental effect on the
brains of rats. Once it works its way into the brain, lead clings
tenaciously to nerve cells, where it disrupts the communication link between
them.
ôWe know that lead is one of the most ubiquitous and persistent neurotoxins
in the environment,ö Dr. Silbergeld told the scientist at the meeting. ôThe
laboratory evidence
shows that adverse effects occur at VERY LOW LEVELS [emphasis added-VP], but
the biochemical bases of lead toxicity do NOT [emphasis added] support the
notion that there is any safe threshold for lead exposure. They also raise
the disturbing possibility that the effects are irreversible as long as any
lead is present in the brain.ö
Moderate lead levels can cause kidney damage and suppress the immune system,
thus increasing oneÆs susceptibility to many diseases including cancer.
Definite signs of heavy lead poisoning are shortened life-span and death.
Chemical and Engineering News reports the following industrial uses for lead
and resulting sources of lead contamination:
Today, U.S. industry consumes 1.3 million tons of lead annually to make such
products as batteries, pigments, solders, pottery, and the antiknock agent
in leaded gasoline. Smelting and fabrication lead for these products and
burning leaded gasoline to drive our mobile societies can expose workers to
high lead levels, and send more than 600,000 tons of lead into the
atmosphere to be inhaled or--after deposition on food crops, in fresh water,
and on soils and street--to be ingested by the general population.
Food also can be contaminated by lead from the solder in tin cans, pesticide
sprays, and cooking utensils. In older homes where the plumbing consists of
lead pipes, and the water is acidic and low in mineral content, lead may
leach into the water supplies. Weathering of lead-laden paint an puddy in
older homes contaminates dust with lead, which can be inhaled or ingested:
chipping, peeling and flaking paint in these homes may offer a child a
tempting but dangerous morsel.
Hair analysis is the method of choice for uncovering lead poisoning. The
fluorometric method for zinc protoporphryn content is a second choice for
screening. However, blood lead levels are inadequate as a measure of lead
content because blood rapidly deposits
lead into skeletal tissue and hair.
Several investigators have confirmed that hair analysis indicate ingested
levels and BODY STORES [emphasis added] of lead. An analysis indicating
significant levels of lead in the hair should be confirmed by other methods.
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 22:55:12 -0400
From: Tom Roberts <troberts@gdi.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Health Issue#2 Lead Data Sheet#2
A couple quick comments while I'm digesting this information:
1) Please consider putting some closing remark (such as "end of file", or "bda
bda bda, th th th that's all folks") as the current appearance can lead one to
think the message has been truncated.
2) What are the units of measurement used for bodily lead content? Is it
different for hair than for bone? What is the relationship between (perhaps
dormant) residual and real-time CNS performance decline? Are these mechanisms
understood?
3) How does one define levels of risk? I recall one of your earlier statements
in which you describe the huge variations in response from one individual to
another and was wondering whether there is some baseline toxicity below which no
one is at risk, or above which everyone is at risk, i.e. what are the bounds?
Tom
Texan wrote:
> Lead Data Sheet #2
> The fluorometric method for zinc protoporphryn content is a second choice for
> screening. However, blood lead levels are inadequate as a measure of lead
> content because blood rapidly deposits lead into skeletal tissue and hair.
>
> Several investigators have confirmed that hair analysis indicate ingested
> levels and BODY STORES [emphasis added] of lead. An analysis indicating
> significant levels of lead in the hair should be confirmed by other methods.
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 23:07:52 -0400
From: Tom Roberts <troberts@gdi.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Health Issue#2 OT follow-up
Sorry folks, that one was meant for our Texan friend. I apologize for the
unintended clutter.
Tom Roberts wrote:
> A couple quick comments while I'm digesting this information:
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 11:08:13 EDT
From: NaugaMok@aol.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Health ISSUES W/Metals.
Visited the library last night & stumbled across something that may have
introduced lead to our systems long ago. In a book called "Boys Toys of the
'50's & '60's" -- a collection of reprinted Sears toy catalogs, there was a
toy soldier making set with melting pot, molds & -- you guessed it -- lead as
the material. Anybody have one of these sets as a kid? Just another example
of how our past ignorance can come back to haunt us.
NM
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Date: 6 Oct 1999 08:28:28 -0700
From: "Concho" <concho@uswestmail.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Health ISSUES W/Metals.
> Visited the library last night & stumbled across something that may have introduced lead to our systems long ago. In a book called "Boys Toys of the '50's & '60's" -- a collection of reprinted Sears toy catalogs, there was a toy soldier making set with melting pot, molds & -- you guessed it -- lead as the material. Anybody have one of these sets as a kid? Just another example of how our past ignorance can come back to haunt us.
>
> NM
I read somewhere years ago, that in colonial times a common practice for making dentures was to use "lead sheet" to make the impressions of the jaw ! Reason for using "lead" was because it was easy to work with for this molding practice. Wonder if old George Washington had that done when being fitted for his wooden store boughts.
This wouldn't have had the exposure or continued contact the toy's would have had on the masses. But like you said "past ignorance can come back to haunt us".
"May the spirit be with you"
D.L."Concho" Smith
Livingston, MO.
Historical Coordinator - Missouri
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Date: 6 Oct 1999 08:35:37 -0700
From: Buck <buck.conner@uswestmail.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Health ISSUES W/Metals.
On Wed, 06 October 1999, "Concho" wrote:
>
> > Visited the library last night & stumbled across something that may have introduced lead to our systems long ago. In a book called "Boys Toys of the '50's & '60's" -- a collection of reprinted Sears toy catalogs, there was a toy soldier making set with melting pot, molds & -- you guessed it -- lead as the material. Anybody have one of these sets as a kid? Just another example of how our past ignorance can come back to haunt us.
> >
> > NM
>
> I read somewhere years ago, that in colonial times a common practice for making dentures was to use "lead sheet" to make the impressions of the jaw ! Reason for using "lead" was because it was easy to work with for this molding practice. Wonder if old George Washington had that done when being fitted for his wooden store boughts.
>
> This wouldn't have had the exposure or continued contact the toy's would have had on the masses. But like you said "past ignorance can come back to haunt us".
>
> "May the spirit be with you"
> D.L."Concho" Smith
Hey,
Turtle said you where on the road to his place, change your mine !
Later,
Buck Conner
AMM Jim Baker Party Colorado
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Date: 6 Oct 1999 08:41:23 -0700
From: turtle@uswestmail.net
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Health ISSUES W/Metals.
> Hey,
> Turtle said you where on the road to his place, change your mine !
>
> Later,
> Buck Conner
Buck,
Concho arrived about daylight today, drove straight through, will rest and has an interview on Friday morning with my director, surprise. Our department needs someone with his background to work the Ft. Pitt area.
Take care - we leave as friends,
Lee "Turtle" Boyer
Historical Advisor - Parks & Rec.
State College, Pennsylvania
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Date: 6 Oct 1999 08:49:29 -0700
From: Buck <buck.conner@uswestmail.net>
Subject: MtMan-List: [OFF TOPIC} Health ISSUES W/Metals.
> Buck,
> Concho arrived about daylight today, drove straight through, will rest and has an interview on Friday morning with my director, surprise. Our department needs someone with his background to work the Ft. Pitt area.
>
> Lee "Turtle" Boyer
Sorry should have used [OFF TOPIC] would have e-mailed off list but didn't know where his original message came from - thus used "reply".
See folks if your retired you can pick and choose where you want to work in the "living history" field, these two have been doing this for several years now. Henry Crawford "HBC" on this list seems to be one that stays for longer periods at one location, like him get the education, experience, and follow what you like, these boys have, lucky dogs.
Later,
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 18:36:28 +0100
From: rick_williams@byu.edu
Subject: RE: MtMan-List: Audubon on beaver trapping
Dear List,
Does this fly in the face of suposition? I've always been led to believe
trapping was only done in fall and winter. How prevalent was summer
trapping?
Rick
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[mailto:owner-hist_text@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Jim Colburn
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 3:48 AM
To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com
Subject: MtMan-List: Audubon on beaver trapping
Washtahay-
ran across this while researching some other subjects-figured some on
the list might find it of interest.
"A good trapper used to catch about eighty Beavers in the autumn, sixty
or seventy in the spring, and upwards of three hundred in the summer, in
the mountains; taking occasionally as many as five hundred in one year.
Sixty or seventy Beaver skins are required to make a pack weighing one
hundred pounds; which when sent to a good market, is worth, even now,
from three to four hundred dollars." Audubon and Bachman (1849)
LongWalker c. du B.
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:15:35 -0500
From: "Texan" <texan@cowtown.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: [OT Health Issues W/Metals]
Hello the list
I learned last night that italicized sentences in Word
don't cross over to the email program.
In the second paragraph I had the name of the book
in italics. The full name is TRACE ELEMENTS, HAIR
ANALYSIS and Nutrition.
Paragraph #9 was italicized and underlined but
that didn't come through. It reads:
MODERATE LEAD LEVELS CAN CAUSE KIDNEY DAMAGE AND
SUPPRESS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, THUS INCREASING ONE'S
SUSCEPTIBILITY TO MANY DISEASES INCLUDING CANCER.
DEFINITE SIGNS OF HEAVY LEAD POISONING ARE SHORTENED
Life-SPAN AND DEATH.
It is such an important paragraph, that I am going to RESEND
Lead Data Sheet #2 with that paragraph in caps. I will be
referring to this statement when I go into the biochemistry
of the toxic effects of lead.
I thought I would go right into the information about getting
started on the hair analysis, but there is more groundwork
that needs to be covered before we get there. PLEASE
bear with me. I promise to get to the testing. My objective is to
establish a solid foundation for all that is to come. This
first phase will also set the tone for the lead "Safety and
Prevention" project.
Several have contacted me off-list with questions. Keep them
coming. I might not be able to get back to you right away, but if the
questions are applicable to the whole group, I will incorporate
the answers in a health data sheet.
Victoria
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 16:35:58 -0500
From: "Henry B. Crawford" <mxhbc@TTACS.TTU.EDU>
Subject: MtMan-List: Straight razors
Friends,
Can anyone cite any decent references on 19th c. straight razors. I have a
student doing a material culture project on straight razors in our
collection. Although it's a nice collection, we don't have any reference
books to compliment it. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
TIA,
HBC
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mxhbc@ttacs.ttu.edu Lubbock, TX 79409-3191
806/742-2442 FAX 742-1136
Website: http://www.ttu.edu/~museum
****** Living History . . . Because It's There ******
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 16:39:52 -0500
From: "Henry B. Crawford" <mxhbc@TTACS.TTU.EDU>
Subject: MtMan-List: pinking shears
I'm finishing the buckskin hunting coat (yes, that's right, for those
who've been wondering whether I was still at it, or I simply gave up and
shot the thing), and I was wanting to pink some of the edges. Were pinking
shears available in the era 1800-1850, or did they just use a knife. If
the shears were available, when did they come into being and how available
were they during the Rondy era?
You have 2 hours to answer this question. Pencils ready. Begin.
Oops, sorry, for minute I thought I was in the classroom. :-)
TIA,
HBC
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Curator of History Museum of Texas Tech University
mxhbc@ttacs.ttu.edu Lubbock, TX 79409-3191
806/742-2442 FAX 742-1136
Website: http://www.ttu.edu/~museum
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:31:30 -0700
From: randybublitz@juno.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Straight razors
HBC, I have an article entitled 'The Restoration & Use of The Straight
Razor', by Heinz Ahlers- Buckskin ReportDec. 1976.
What kind of info. did you need? According to the article, hollow ground
razors came into use around 1820. Horn handles are usually pre-1880. 1850
and earlier razors usually are not highly polished, show grinding marks
and have curved blades. 3 main types of razors; wedge, hollow ground,
frame back. Wedge gring is oldest, used for centuries. Most of the good
info. gleaned from article. The article is mostly on reconditioning old
razors. Hope this helps. Hardtack
Your Second Amendment Rights protect ALL of your other Rights, Don't give
up your Rights
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 17:30:01 -0700
From: "John C. Funk, Jr." <J2Hearts@norcalis.net>
Subject: MtMan-List: Acorns and such
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Buck, I read you article on wilderness plants (damn good) which prompts =
me to ask this following question regarding the consumption of "acorn =
meal".
1. Can "any" acorn be used for "meal" when properly leached of its =
tannins?
2. Can acorns from "Oregon White Oak", which may be a-kin to "scrub oak" =
be used for "meal"?
It's been a bumper year for acorns here in northern Cal. after El Nino =
(last year) and we hare acorns the size of hens eggs.
I'd like to make some "flour" for bread (or whatever) if possible.
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> <DIV>Buck, I read you article on wilderness plants (damn good) which prompts me
> to ask this following question regarding the consumption of "acorn meal".</DIV>
> <DIV>1. Can "any" acorn be used for "meal" when properly leached of its
> tannins?</DIV>
> <DIV>2. Can acorns from "Oregon White Oak", which may be a-kin to "scrub oak" be
> used for "meal"?</DIV>
> <DIV>á</DIV>
> <DIV>It's been a bumper year for acorns here in northern Cal. after El Nino
> (last year) and weáhare acorns the size of hens eggs.</DIV>
> <DIV>á</DIV>
> <DIV>I'd like to make some "flour" for bread (or whatever) if possible.</DIV>
> <DIV>John Funk</DIV>
John,
As they say, "I'll go straight to the horses mouth" and ask Mr. LaVelle what you would like to know, he teaches these "wild edible classes", so we'll put him on the spot. Like Henry said earlier tonight, "2 hour test, pick up your pencils....".
I'll see him tomorrow at work and will get you an answer.
Later,
Buck Conner
AMM Jim Baker Party Colorado
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:07:19 -0700
From: "John C. Funk, Jr." <J2Hearts@norcalis.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Acorns and such
Randy,
Thanks. I'll get the book and go from there.
john Funk
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From: <randybublitz@juno.com>
To: <hist_text@lists.xmission.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Acorns and such
> John, The book 'The Natural World of the California Indians' by Heizer
> & Elsasser ISBN 0-520-03896-7 has some good info on acorns as food, a
> large part of the Cal Indian diet. I'll bet your Oregon variety of oak
> is the same as the northern cal. variety. Check it out. Info on
> gathering, storing, preparing for food. Hardtack
> Your Second Amendment Rights protect ALL of your other Rights, Don't give
> up your Rights
>
>
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 21:21:04 -0500
From: John Kramer <kramer@kramerize.com>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: pinking shears
Henry,
I can't give you any direct information but, I may be able to offer a
couple of
clues.
Given the technology of the early nineteenth century I would think pinkin=
g
shears would at best have been uncommon and very expensive. Consider sci=
ssors
of the period. Some of what was done staggers the imagination when we
consider
what they had to work with. High tech machines like the Blanchard lathe =
were
generally reserved to making things like guns or other machines. Pinking
Shears are pretty sophisticated, possible for a truly skilled whitesmith.
If available at all they should be listed in a book I once read, in a fri=
ends
now unavailable library. I've never been able to find a copy for myself.=
The
title was something like "Joseph Smith's catalog of English manufactory".=
The
Joseph Smith part is right. It shows engravings of maybe everything
manufactured in 17?? 18?? it was published as a reprint by, I can't remem=
ber
who. If you can find a copy; if pinking shears existed; it's likely they=
are
shown. Details are lost in my mental junkpile.
John...
At 04:39 PM 10/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm finishing the buckskin hunting coat (yes, that's right, for those
>who've been wondering whether I was still at it, or I simply gave up and
>shot the thing), and I was wanting to pink some of the edges.=A0 Were pi=
nking
>shears available in the era 1800-1850, or did they just use a knife.=A0 =
If
>the shears were available, when did they come into being and how availab=
le
>were they during the Rondy era?
>
>You have 2 hours to answer this question.=A0 Pencils ready.=A0 Begin.
>
>Oops, sorry, for minute I thought I was in the classroom.=A0 :-)
>
>TIA,
>HBC
>
>****************************************
>Henry B. Crawford Box 43191
>Curator of History Museum of Texas Tech University
