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Cob: flat cob surfacesGraham Peters grahampeters at crookfarm.co.ukFri Jan 17 05:02:04 CST 2003
They are trimming the surface before the cob dries, either with a sharp flat spade-like thing while standing on the top of the wall, or with a sharp mattock- or adze-like thing while standing on the ground, or on something to raise them off the ground. This is standard cob-building practice in Devon and elsewhere, where cob is mixed, stamped and pared, not `hand-sculpted'. They are not using forms / shuttering. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jill cox.net To: coblist at deatech.com Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 05:52 Subject: Cob: Can someone tell me how these people, shown making cob home, made it so smooth and flat? http://www.endersonbrowns.demon.co.uk/cob/index.html -------------- next part -------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>They are trimming the surface before the cob dries, either with a sharp flat spade-like thing while standing on the top of the wall, or with a sharp mattock- or adze-like thing while standing on the ground, or on something to raise them off the ground. This is standard cob-building practice in Devon and elsewhere, where cob is mixed, stamped and pared, not `hand-sculpted'. They are not using forms / shuttering.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=writejill1 at cox.net href="mailto:writejill1 at cox.net">Jill cox.net</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=coblist at deatech.com href="mailto:coblist at deatech.com">coblist at deatech.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 16, 2003 05:52</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Cob: </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can someone tell me how these people, shown making cob home, made it so smooth and flat?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.endersonbrowns.demon.co.uk/cob/index.html">http://www.endersonbrowns.demon.co.uk/cob/index.html</A></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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