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Making the Pitch Lap
 
The tools and pitch and pliers and mirror and red rouge are all needed to make the polising pitch lap.

Making the Pitch lap can be messy
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Pictured here is equipment needed to melt, pour, flow, cool, and fabricate the pitch lap.

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Here is Larry Huges Polishing a 12.5" F6 mirror
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The pitch lap on the bottom conforms to the glass curve above

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