EK Frosting Methods :

[Douglas 5]

Hi Members ;

re : EK frosting methods and application .

This subject may have been posted befor , probably just not found it yet.
With all the strickt guidelines on the manufacturing of Iron Crosses .... ,size ,shape and materials , a bit puzzeled over the many different frosting applications ?
It seams to be a great variance by maker what parts of the Cross was frosted . Without posting dozons of pictures , I have seen Crosses with very little frosting to more or less the whole frame frosted including the ribbon ring . Appearance : Thin and smooth all the way to thick paste like coatings , machine and hand applied ? Some never frosted , or worn or polished away, or missed that process ? or late war lake of material .
The Picture Gallery that is being set up on EK 2's right now is an excellent spot to see all these different applications .
Was it then entirly up to the manufacturer to 'frost' what he wanted to ???
And can frosting types and styles- date the Cross ???
Peticular interest are S&L EK2 Crosses , .. just going over some old information of mine .

Cheers, Douglas

[Douglas 5]

Anyone?
Majority of all frosted Crosses I can find are -full frosting- right down to the frame , mechanically done ? How common are bead applied frosted crosses , bead ridges only and not the groves , a very tricky and time consuming process - is it not ?
Douglas

[Dietrich Maerz]

Douglas,

have a look at the S&L article I posted (pinned at the top). There's something in there about frosting.

Dietrich

[Sal Williams]

When did frosting begin? Is it found back to the 1813 type?

[Douglas 5]

I will Dietrich .

[Douglas 5]

Hi Dietrich :
Hade another good read of the mentioned RK S&L article .
It revealed very interesting information applyable to another cross of mine that is not a RK but where the same work and general manufacturing process parallels that of the RK in frame mixing, laquering , pickling and supports the 'bin theory' .
Still working and learning about EK's because the one I have does not look like the dozons of posted S&L,s . The frosting is different and lets me think the frame to be coin silber , do to the puffiness of the frosting .
Yes I have done a picture series to post shortly as its own thread , after resizing all the pictures . Going over some facts as not to be printing any nonsense . It should be interesting to see .
Douglas

[Sal Williams]

Dietrich, does anyone know when frosting was first used on EK's?

Thanks, Sal

[Dietrich Maerz]

Sal,

I don't know anything about pre 39 crosses! Maybe you should ask the question in the Imperial Forum.

Dietrich

[Don D.]

Dietrich, does anyone know when frosting was first used on EK's?

Thanks, Sal

I believe it was started with the 1939 crosses. I have 30-40 EKs from Imperial time and don't see frosting on any of them.