When I was about 9 years old (ie circa 1954 ), Dad put up a horizontal broom rail on an outside brick wall of our house. But first he chiseled out two perpends - the vertical mortar between two bricks - and knocked a piece of wood into each of the gaps which were about a meter apart. He then screwed the horizontal broom rail to these wooden plugs.
But before he knocked in the wooden plugs, Dad chopped at them with a tomahawk 'to give them a twisted shape', I recall him saying.
Perhaps because such a plug could be jammed into a perpend gap and be stuck there for a long time.
Does anyone know how this twisted shape was done? I have asked people whom I thought should know but I've only received blank looks. Alas, Dad has long since passed.
Being referred to an Internet site would be ideal.
Joy to woodworkers everywhere,
KevinB
But before he knocked in the wooden plugs, Dad chopped at them with a tomahawk 'to give them a twisted shape', I recall him saying.
Perhaps because such a plug could be jammed into a perpend gap and be stuck there for a long time.
Does anyone know how this twisted shape was done? I have asked people whom I thought should know but I've only received blank looks. Alas, Dad has long since passed.
Being referred to an Internet site would be ideal.
Joy to woodworkers everywhere,
KevinB
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