[TheForge] fireplace crane hardware

[dan tull]

I'd check and see what the customer wants. Here in Appalachia, it would 
normally be an indent in the granite hearth. Maybe the bottom is similar to 
the top.?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>
To: "theforge" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 5:21 PM
Subject: [TheForge] fireplace crane hardware


> I've got a customer that wants a fireplace crane for an 1840's German 
> colony
> house that she is restoring. Making the crane itself is no problem, but 
> I'm
> unsure about period correct mounting hardware.  It is my guess that the 
> top
> pivot point would have feathered edges and be mortered into the side of 
> the
> fireplace.  I have no idea what the bottom pivot should look like, a plate
> with anchor bolts holding it in place? A plate recessed in the hearth and
> mortered into place?   Maybe a just a hole in one of the hearth bricks? 
> Or
> maybe a large hole with a washer mortered in place?
>
> I've been looking through my blacksmith books and can't find the details I
> need.
>
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
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