I think it was designed for a paper shell. It was converted into the a paper shell era, right?
When they converted it, they used the bbls, wood, locks, fences, and probably the hammers. They built the action, toplever, bold, etc, and added the flat/lumps to the bbls. An amazing amount of work, really.
I can see a the remains of a some London proofs on the water table and it looks like there's some on the bbls. There may have been more that the shoe lump covered up.
Beautiful wood, BTW.
OWD
Last edited by obsessed-with-doubles; 05/08/08 07:43 PM.
