Pour test video
At 2:07 p.m. Tuesday, the Founders pushed open the tap hole plug of the furnace and a smooth, red-hot stream of molten bronze flowed into the coehorn mortar mold.
The bronze had melted shortly before, after being heated, slowly at first, through the night and this morning. We won’t know exactly how the casting looks until we dig it up and break away the mold tomorrow afternoon, but the heating and pouring process went without hitch.
A number of folks lent a hand out at the site over the night and today. Thanks to them and all the other tradespeople and others who have worked on the project.
Opening the mold gallery
Making the mold gallery
The clay model is removed, leaving a hollow mold.
Making the model gallery
Founders create a model for the cannon.
Wheelwright gallery
The wheelwrights create the carriage and limber.
Making the furnace gallery
Brickmakers work on creating a reverberatory furnace.
Cannon diagram gallery
Diagrams of the light infantry three pounder cannon.