The Armour Archive

How did they make them?

Forged? Cast?..... ?

You can make them by turning, filing, drilling and perhaps hammering, from suitably sized brass rod. I'd suggest 1/4" diameter, but somewhat smaller will do for post vervelles. About all you need is files and an electric drill, with any suitable polishing attachment to buff everything smooth when you're done forming it.

One hardly needs to forge brass, after all.

Tunnel vervelles may be made up out of sheet and rod stock by welding or brazing, or by non-welding designs that don't entail having a post for a base; sheet metal with its ends fit into a slot parallel with the vervelle line for each tunnel vervelle.

Horton Brasses offers a brass drawer pull post that has been used to excellent effect. One cuts it to size and drills through the bulbous, transverse-elliptical drawer-knob end for the retaining wire.

Not how can I make them....

How do we think they made them......

I was looking at the Lyle the other day, but they are all replacements.

I think what Konstantin is saying is worth thinking about because they will have been done in different ways?

Needs photos.

I'd cast the brass ones but they may have made them from rod?