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Making a Latch
is a description, with photos, of the steps we go through to make a Suffolk Latch.

Making a Grip shows the process for making a Cabinet Grip.

Tools of the Trade shows some of the tools in Molly’s blacksmith shop.

Tools of the Trade

This is the first plate in Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works. It is taken from a reprint of the third edition originally published in 1703.

Figure 1 at the top is the forge and bellows, figure 2 is the anvil. Figure 4 to the left of the anvil are tongs and hammers, figure 5, rest below the anvil. Figure 6 is the vise.

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