Here are some hand made cherries made by a passed gunsmith of Louisville, KY. (Norton Gatz) One of the small ones is a massed produced cherry, (maybe used for a pattern ?), the others hand filed & hardened. Most cut the same direction. Possibly easier for him to file them that direction ?
Still digging thru little boxes of stuff. These were in with a box full of rifling heads that is for the rifling machine he had. Various sized cherries & the double one of .340 cal one end, .400 on the other end, I thought was unique. All were made from round stock. Have not found any molds yet, possibly he made a mold for the barrels as he finished them & the mold went with the barrel/rifle.
Keith Lisle
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