The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Hammer-pick

A furnace-man's steel tool, having a hammer face and sharpened point at the respective ends of the head. Used for cutting out and trimming the inside of the cupola. See PICK-HAMMER; REPAIRING THE CUPOLA.

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