[Bell Historians] steam-bending ash for sliders

[Andrew Aspland]

http://www.riponandleedsbells.org.uk/thornton_watlass.htm
The above page has a picture part way down with a very clear example of a straight slider – the clapper misses by miles!  Unusually there are some datable fittings in this tower.
I have recently discovered a shaped slider (probably of 1827) at Holy Trinity Ripon which was designed to allow the clapper to just miss it but which is not steam bent.
Yours
Andrew           
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