Thread: Clearing Up

Originally Posted by Rushy

Such fun melting lead. A mate and I used to melt lead head nails in the sixties and we made all sorts of stuff. They only problem is lead is so soft and so heavy it doesn't make good arrow heads.

Blunt quite easily too.

Last time I made sinkers would have been at least 35 years ago with the old man. Only a handful of those left. They were made from salvaged lead pipes and flashings, handy having a couple of builders in the family.