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Each year I receive a few requests to renovate old fire bellows - usually in the winter, when people's thoughts turn to cosy log fires! The set that I completed last week were one of the most challenging yet, and I kept a photo-diary of the various stages of the job.I've launched it here in the form of two pdf files over two posts, because there are a lot of pics, and as a single file it exceeds the 1mb limit. See what you think! And here's part 2!

Bellows1.pdf

Bellows2.pdf

Bellows1.pdf

Bellows2.pdf

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That's amazing

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Absolutely fantastic! Your craftmanship is incredible, and I particularly love the history lesson. What a great post! Cheers!

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Beautiful Restoration and Awesome story :spoton:

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An old friend dropped some bellows in about a month ago and wanted to know if I can renew them.. I've never tried this before, so no doubt you'll get a query or two sometime in the future!

Tony.

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An old friend dropped some bellows in about a month ago and wanted to know if I can renew them.. I've never tried this before, so no doubt you'll get a query or two sometime in the future!

Tony.

Just ask away whenever you're ready! I have some pictures of the moulding process which may be useful.

Terry

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Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed the pics of the work in progress and the history lesson. Posts like yours are some of my favorite things on this forum. :cowboy:

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Thanks for sharing that, Terry! That is very cool! (or, warm, depending on how you look at it - LOL)

Kate

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That is so cool and its so Steampunk too!!! Are you selling it?

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Fantastic, I want:-)

Love the way you manage to capture the "old world" in the piece. I can see "the blower" in front of that old fireplace at the pub "The Drunken Duck" (sort'a) on a dark wintery day in the Lake District or other nice place in England.

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Absolutely fascinating!

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That is so cool and its so Steampunk too!!! Are you selling it?

The restoration was a commission for a guy in the west of England. He's moving lock, stock and barrel (and bellows) to Canada in March. I guess he'll find plenty of use for them over there!

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