15th January 2015, 03:57 PM
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Full Name: Dan Brothwell
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 3,520
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Originally Posted by weidner
If anyone is ever going to the trouble of casting a gong , then it would be worth going to a bell foundry . Whitechapel still cast and finish hand bells , and I seem to remember that they have patterns for gongs , which would be cast similarly . Bell metal , which is 22% tin , rings better than anything else ( even better than Fowler gears ) I would bet that Whitechapel's gong patterns are imperial . They would tune it too if you wanted .
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Surely it would make more sense for me to go visit John Taylor & Co?
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