Wood pattern for casting iron flowers #1: There is an inside, and an outside, to everything.
Master patterns and production tooling belonged to whoever paid the invoice. On the other hand, whatever was used to build the pattern, things like jigs, fixtures, molds, negatives, or plugs, was recycled in the shop, or was dis-guarded. Stuff like that usually got thrown into the scrap barrel. The objects that are the focus of this story escaped that fate and ended up on a shelf in my garage. I think they have a story worth telling. Patterns often required unique shapes that had to be...
