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Hammered Home:
Wrought iron is softer than cast iron and has less carbon and other impurities in it. It is not brittle and may be hammered into bars, rolled into plates, or drawn into wires. It can be hammered or bent to almost any shape and holds the shape to which it is bent. For this reason it is called a malleable material (derived from Latin, malleus, a hammer). Wrought iron may be welded; that is, separate pieces may be joined together by hammering when they are red-hot.The technique of inlay is used for silver as well as for base metal. A design is engraved, and the ground is cut away; or the design is etched, and the ground removed by acid. The resulting hollow is then filled with the inlay metal, gold or silver, which then is fused or hammered home.
For each custom home design plan, he sends his team of stone and timber experts into the forests of Northern New England to find giant boulders, entire trees or 8-ton Granite stones that become the signature elements of each custom built home. When asked about the use of such unusual materials in his design Nold said, "When a client wants their weekend, or second home to provide retreat and renewal far from their primary home - this distance is not measured just in miles, but in the emotions their home evokes.
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