I never thought about it before. . .

I have always loved this door latch off of the old Pitts Blacksmith shop, which I saved and still use on the rebuilt building.
But as many times as I have used it, and indeed photographed it, I never really noticed that it is made with rough hand tools. Mostly made it looks like with an axe.

I will have to check next time to see if the notches the slide runs in have any saw marks in them or not.

It is still mounted on the door I took off the original building.

And it has lasted all these years.