A Heavy Unexpected Find

[RED Matthews]

So our old house has those window weights. At the Thatcher Central Mold Shop we had metal handles and poured lead hammer heads for pounding on chisels or in mold iron repair work. I have one of the molds and four or five handles up north. As a kid my father had a glass melting furnace and a melting pot, because he was a plumber and put cast iron drainage pipes together with oacum rope and pounded in melted lead in the joints. So I also had some molds for lead soldires - though I don't know where they aren new. Memories now. RED Matthews

 

[daven2nl]

Sounding leads will be concave at the bottom. Wax would be placed here and the sounder can see what the bottom conditions are like - sand, mud, etc.