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From: "Paul & Suzanne Morgan" <>
Subject: PATTERNMAKER
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 17:37:23 +0930


A patternmaker was and still is a person who virtually made a wooden model
of a part or product. The model was then used as the pattern for a sand
casting and the item produced on a one to one basis.
A pattern today is made out of all sorts of materials i.e.. steel,
aluminium, fibreglass, carbonfibre.
The patternmaker has always been a very accurate worker, working within
1,000 of an inch, and well respected among his fellow workers or employers.
The modern equivalent would be a diemaker. The main difference between the 2
is that a patternmaker made an exact replica of the product and then a die
was made from that, where a diemaker makes a mirror image and his work is
the die.
Every thing manufactured has at some stage been made by diemakers or
toolmakers.
Regards from Adelaide
Paul

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