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A pintle in the making.

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 20:59

This series of images that follow show one method of forging pintles, as seen in various formats in the front centre of the image above. The job could, of course, be done in many different ways;  today it would be generally done as a straightforward fabrication;, for example, by electric welding a piece of rod to a piece of flat bar which has been flame cut to the required shape. I think that the blacksmiths' method, of which this is but one possibility,  not only produces a more attractive result  (in this instance by a clear mile)  but will also tend to give the finished article a structural integrity which can easily be absent from the mass produced , fabricated article.

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