Nickel Silver is a brass alloy. Nickel silver was the most common material for compasses and sometime in the 1960's I think they started chrome plating them. Earlier compasses were plain nick silver. There are some brass only compasses made during wartime when there was a shortage of nickel silver.
Just looked it up and the contents are, The usual formulation is 60% copper, 20% nickel and 20% zinc, it shines up lovely and has a deep shine looks better than chrome.
@@jasonbrentpresley you're the only channel covering these tools that I can find on CZcams so I say lean into it and be THE place to go for drafting history and tool usage. I think that making videos with the perspective that the audience already knows what you know will at best limit you to an ever dwindling core of viewers vs a much larger potential population of viewers who have little to no knowledge of these tools. (I'm still waiting to see what those tong like pen things are. I never see any ink in these sets) Never underestimate the power of romanticism and nostalgia to a bygone time. I've seen numerous CZcams channels find success due to them being the primary source of information for whatever niche thing they are in to. From this channel I've learned Haff was a premier maker of drafting tools and that Riefler had a unique attachment method. But the info is only mentioned in passing. Clearly a lot of time and effort was made into making these high precision tools. Let us know the history 👍🏻
@@jasonbrentpresley For sure, they are the most comprehensive video's on the web, it must have taken you years to acquire so many wonderful sets, we also love your work.
Nickel Silver is a brass alloy. Nickel silver was the most common material for compasses and sometime in the 1960's I think they started chrome plating them. Earlier compasses were plain nick silver. There are some brass only compasses made during wartime when there was a shortage of nickel silver.
Hey Mike!
Just looked it up and the contents are, The usual formulation is 60% copper, 20% nickel and 20% zinc, it shines up lovely and has a deep shine looks better than chrome.
Fascinating. I know little of what these tools do so I appreciate it when you demonstrate the use of various components
I’m glad to hear someone appreciates my videos.
@@jasonbrentpresley you're the only channel covering these tools that I can find on CZcams so I say lean into it and be THE place to go for drafting history and tool usage. I think that making videos with the perspective that the audience already knows what you know will at best limit you to an ever dwindling core of viewers vs a much larger potential population of viewers who have little to no knowledge of these tools. (I'm still waiting to see what those tong like pen things are. I never see any ink in these sets) Never underestimate the power of romanticism and nostalgia to a bygone time. I've seen numerous CZcams channels find success due to them being the primary source of information for whatever niche thing they are in to. From this channel I've learned Haff was a premier maker of drafting tools and that Riefler had a unique attachment method. But the info is only mentioned in passing. Clearly a lot of time and effort was made into making these high precision tools. Let us know the history 👍🏻
@@tuhkathri9126 Thank you for your kind words.
@@jasonbrentpresley For sure, they are the most comprehensive video's on the web, it must have taken you years to acquire so many wonderful sets, we also love your work.
Lol im interested 😂
Learning to draw Islamic geometry lol