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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

There kind of was

There would have been hundreds of people in the community who spent their lives doing metal working and casting

Nowadays for a vision job like that’s you’ll have to find one of a handful of specialists in your area.

Same with glass blowing and other artisanal work.

And good chance this knocker was made from a mold.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

can't make a model like that with a solid mold. it's too far from a convex hull. you need to sand-cast it, cut off the pouring channels, then polish up the rough surfaces. then you need to heat up the knocker part in order to bend it into shape in the mouth. even if you cast multiple heads at once that's several days of highly skilled work per product. that doesn't come cheap.

[–] spacesatan@lazysoci.al 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You can simplify this and eliminate the forging by just casting more parts and assembling them. From looking at it I thought the teeth were removable and the fastener is hidden by the beard but other similar cast knockers seem to just make the ring out of two parts. https://www.chairish.com/product/14868315/antique-satyr-face-wram-horns-iron-door-knocker

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 7 hours ago

what i'm taking from that link is, this is a modern knocker and the guy in the picture is an idiot :P