This is my 2nd go at a Vintage key copy, I
chose this time a Partrick & Carter key, original pics below right which
were kindly sent by Tom Perera from his website, the fancy bridge over the
arm caught my attention and the cut and shaped brass base, both of which
were tricky to make with my limited tooling, the bridge or arch is made of five parts sweated and
bolted together to get that swept shape, also the arm has some fancy
tooling,
there are differences, the shape of the base is slightly different not so
cut in as the original, and there is a disk shape that the gap adjuster
works against , the arch maybe slightly higher but hard to tell from the
only pictures I have, It has a nice action unlike a real Railway brass
pounder, a little tricky to set up perhaps but hey this is a real vintage
design :()
You can see from
these pictures how they got the name keys!! it does look like some mad door
lock and key hi!! |