I did not have a proper brass button mould, so I made a gang mould out of clay. This was simply a sheet of clay with the shape of the buttons pressed into it with a shank at the bottom. The hole in the shank I drilled after the buttons were made.
In the 18th century they used brass button moulds and poured melted pewter into the mould just as we pour moulten lead into a ball mould to make ball for our Flintlock Muzzle-loading guns.
