This parejo mold I scored from Frutiger is without question the sharpest & cleanest antique mold I have ever seen.
A finished gar pops out at 5 3/8" x 46 rg, as you see here. Perfect size for me. This one is a keeper, I think. Love Maks' mold to death; but it's 8" x 50 rg. If I could get Maks to make a 46rg model, I'd unload this and just use the two Maks parejos.
I was playing with the idea of a contrasting leaf as band. What you see there, I thought I might call it the Uppowoc Mourner. Just as I am playing round with this idea, R2knee2 get bad news from Idaho. Her eldest son is going thru his umpteenth heart attack. Fate to be determined Monday. I will prolly have to jet her out there to Idaho tomorrow. So my tasteless Mourner gar jest neener neenered into serious beeswax. Hey, don't breathe a word of this to R2knee2, ya know. She's a mother, so...
Here's the other mold I scored from Frutiger
This one has a wee bit of a flaw on one channel; but otherwise totally sound. I selected this one cause it is a fat 50rg in the middle. Lots plumper than the 44 or 45 typical of these molds. All the rest of his molds, far as the ones I picked over, they were all the standard little fecto molds you see all over.
Let me also show you the small box press I scored:
Stuff about three moldsfull of these small parejos in there tight, with those planks between them, slap the lid shut, and swing that iron bar over the end of the lid to hold it down... like sop
... and leave them to square up. Drawback is you have to roll batches of 30.
Gonna clean this stuff up and put it for sale --- what I can part with, I mean. Loving every minute of this rolling plank. Looks too small after my big tile and bamboo cutting board ... but it's not. It's just right. The diff between cutting against the end grain is impressive. I'll clean up all three and give them a beeswaxing. Got to score some Marvel Mystery Oil, too, to recondition the tuck cutter I got and the press. Wait till you guys see the press!