[CR]"hand made"

(Example: Framebuilders:Pino Morroni)

From: "Thomas Rawson" <twrawson@worldnet.att.net>
To: <monkeylad@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:41:26 -0800
cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]"hand made"

Hi Brandon, Id quibble with only one thing in your post. The wax part that the ceramic slurry is applied to then fired in a kiln so the wax melts out before molten steel is poured into the ceramic is itself in fact "cast". There are molds first made to cast the wax. There is hand work in that the wax parts out of the molds need to be cleaned up just like the later final metal ones. The hand made part youre referring to might apply to fabrication of the wax mold - the mold that forms the wax part. Many thousands of parts are made from these molds though.
Tom Rawson
Oakland, CA