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International Ceramics Products

Antique Blacksmiths Bellows (lt. blue)

Antique Blacksmiths Bellows (lt. blue)

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Photos from Ted Mays, Tool Collection Tour   Antique Blacksmiths Bellows (lt. blue)

These are factory made bellows of the type made in the USA at the end of the horse drawn transportation era. Will need releathering to be used.

  • Pine Wood, leather and iron fittings
  • Overall Length 50 inches
  • Width is 28 inches
  • Closed height, 6 inches.
  • Nozzle is 8.5 inches long
  • WEIGHT: 63 lbs.
Large Antique Blacksmiths Bellows

Re-leathering Bellows:

To use these bellows they must have the old leather replaced. To do so the old leather can be used as patterns to an extent. However, a great many bellows have been ruined by making the new leather the same as the old shrunken leather. Bellows should open 1/2 to 2/3's their width in height. The old shrunken leather will only be a small fraction of this size in height.

Short leathering a bellows is like short sheeting a bed, it is very uncomfortable and useless. A bellows that is shorted on leather has to be pumped very rapidly to get any air out of it at all and is nearly impossible to blow a large fire. I've worked in two restorations that had bellows with shorted leather. One was re-leathered at a very prestedious historical institution - and done wrong, TWICE.

Many grades of leather can be used on a bellows. I prefer leather processed for upholstery. It is supple and finished to be water resistant. I used "buckskin", a split cowhide with a rough surface on my bellows I built in 1977. This was a little thin but lasted over 30 years. It takes a lot of leather to re-leather a bellows. It was said at one time that it took a full oxen hide to leather a bellows. That is several cow hides. On a large bellows the leather will need to be pieced. Since the leather starts at several feet wide at the back of the bellows and tapers to a foot or less at the nozle block it makes peicing a sensible solution.

My Great Bellows -guru


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