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Figure 15
Selection of iron
brick axes to the
Moxon specification.
The curved ends to
these blades, a result
of misuse, would be
unsuitable for axing
bricks, which require
straight blades.
(Courtesy of Richard
Filmer)
and dangerous. Also, there would be no practical sense in carving out the detail
high up on a building when it all could be executed in the comfort of a cutting -
shed, dry-assembled, and then taken up the scaffold in the correct order of lay-
ing. What was probably observed and misunderstood in the past was the practice
of 'humouring'; that is, adjusting lines and angles by abrading in the finishing
phase to ensure all constructional elements swept neatly into one another.
