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May

Wanted!

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So, with all projects like this I would like to keep the costs to a bare minimum, scrounging as much material as I can.  As such, if you have anything on the list of Items below that you are willing to donate to the project it be a great help.

I would of course be willing to collect said items as long as the cost of transportation does not exceed the costs of purchasing said item locally.

  • A Large Anvil
  • Various Smithying tools (hammers, pincers and tongs)
  • Slate roofing tiles (to cover about 9 Square metres)
  • Large Wooden wine barrel
  • leather for making large bellows
  • copper or brass sheeting
  • and anthing else you think would be worthwhile.
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Caterina della Pieri
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Sveinn, you could be waiting half a lifetime to come up with free or very cheap slate roofing tiles.

Until the day when real ones can be purchased and installed, could you work with substitute “slates,” made out of steel and painted?

The 19th-century slates I have (all two of them, and they’re in NJ — don’t ask…) are about 15-20 cm wide by 60-80 cm long, and extremely thin, you wouldn’t think they were natural stone.

Any old scrappy steel sheeting could be cut in rectangles a bit larger than these dimensions, with the edges then folded under and hammered flat. Painted very dark gray, then pierced and laid as real slates would be, these could look pretty good as a temporary measure.

To make the steel “slates” a little more realistic, extra strips of steel could be attached to the edges before those get folded under, to bulk out the thickness at the fold.

These could work well, even meeting fire-code restrictions, until real slates become available.

December 1st, 2009 at 1:01 am
admin
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This is a great idea. Though the wanted request was simply a case of “you never get anything unless you ask”, and yes, it would probably take half a lifetime if I was just waiting for someone to have an excess of slate tiles without actually actively looking. At this early stage of the project I’m not looking for the roofing materials, I’m spending as much time as I’m willing to devote to the project looking for rocks and there are plenty of those at Crossroads. ;)

December 1st, 2009 at 7:16 am

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