Hallo,
I'm writing to you dear warrelicks forum members with a question. Do anybody knows what type of an tool did the Red Army men used to create such a pattern visible at many of an trench work creations.
Yours Mario
Hallo,
I'm writing to you dear warrelicks forum members with a question. Do anybody knows what type of an tool did the Red Army men used to create such a pattern visible at many of an trench work creations.
Yours Mario
Till now I was able with such an easy equipment as you may see on the picture, create such as dinner pail. With: a short piece of song, my full name in Russian and a Star.
Do you like it ?.
It is made by cogwheel from watch or clock, metal is very hard.
Comrade,
Did you run the Slogans past your Political Officer?, we are an army, not a circus ,after all...
Actually, this is called 'wriggle work' here in the U.S.
A small, chisel-shaped blade set in a wooden handle is pressed into the aluminum at an angle and then pivoted back and forth while walking the tip of the blade forward to produce a length of these Z shapes.
It's not that difficult to do, as long as your blade is sharp.
You can sharpen an old small screwdriver to a chisel shape and use it. Or you can take a nail and square off the point, sharpen it to a chisel shape and then set the nail in a wooden handle.
No hammer is required. Aluminum is soft enough to do this with the tool with hand pressure.
-Bill M
It is good to know the technique. I have often contacted sellers to warn them that the definition of ``trench art`` is exactly seen in the very name: all you can do with limited tools available. Still, enameled pieces are still offered as `` trench art``, or even embroidery! What you cannot do at home now they could not possibly do it in the trenches.
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