Nautical Chandelier – Edmund Fitzgerald Inspired – LC545
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Nautical Chandelier Edmund Fitzgerald – Handmade Ships Wheel – Lanterns – Original Craft Chandelier – Solid Cedar Cypress And Solid Brass Nautical Parts How Its Made – Master Blacksmithing Solid Hand Forged Wrought Iron – (no castings or hollow faux metals) – Built The Old Fashioned Way “When Everything Made In America Was Built To Last Forever” And Craftsmen Were Proud To Sign Their Work – All Heat Applied Iron Oxide Hand Patina Finished – (no powder coating or faux paint on iron finishes) – All American Made And Guaranteed Forever – Order Any Size Or Style – Backed By Our Over Nine Decades Of Fine Craftsmanship Since 1913
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All Wrought Iron – Master Blacksmiths Solid Hand Forged Wrought Iron – (no castings or hollow faux metals) – All Heat Applied Iron Oxide Hand Patina Finished – (no powder coating or faux paint on iron finishes) – All Wrought Iron Is American Made And Guaranteed Forever – Order Any Size Or Style – Backed By Our Over Nine Decades Of Fine Craftsmanship Since 1913.
Designs & Redesigns By H. J. Nick and ArtFactory.com a handmade in America Handmade manufacturer based in Scottsdale Arizona has been designing and building some of the worlds finest furnishings for some of the world’s finest interior designers with ordinary clients as well as most prominent and successful Persons, C.E.O.’s, Leaders, Royalty and Celebrities for the last 99 years. Most of our clients want custom handmade products that have a BIG WOW factor and elegance. All want investment value and products that makes a proper statement reflecting their personality or the ambiance of the environment for which it is intended.
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Historical Information
A ship’s wheel is the change its course. Together with the rest of the steering mechanism it forms part of the helm. Helmsmen on older ships used a tiller (a horizontal bar fitted directly to the top of the rudder post) or a whipstaff (a vertical stick acting on a tiller).
Early ships’ wheels (c. 1700) were operated to correspond to the motion of the tiller, with a clockwise motion (corresponding to a right tiller motion) turning the rudder and thus the ship to the left.
Early ships’ wheels (c. 1700) were operated to correspond to the motion of the tiller, with a clockwise motion (corresponding to a right tiller motion) turning the rudder and thus the ship to the left.
A traditional ship’s wheel is composed of eight cylindrical wooden spokes (though sometimes as few as six or as many as ten) shaped like balusters and all joined at a central wooden hub or nave (sometimes covered with a brass nave plate) which housed the axle.
The square hole at the centre of the hub through which the axle ran is called a drive square and was often lined with a brass plate (and therefore called a brass boss, though this term was used more often to refer to a brass hub and nave plate) which was frequently etched with the name of the wheel’s manufacturer.
The outer rim is composed of four sections each made up of stacks of three felloes, the facing felloe, the middle felloe, and the after felloe. Because each group of three felloes at one time made up a quarter of the distance around the rim, the entire outer wooden wheel was sometimes called the quadrant.
Each spoke ran through the middle felloe creating a series of handles on the outside of the wheel’s rim. One of these handles/ spokes was frequently given extra grooves at its tip which could be felt by a helmsman steering in the dark and used by him to determine the exact position of the rudder? this was the king spoke and when it pointed straight upward the rudder was dead straight. The wood used in construction of this type of wheel was most often either teak or mahogany.
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