THIS PAGE IS INTENDED FOR USE AS A DESIGN AID , SHOWING
ALL THE STAGES FROM DESIGN RIGHT THROUGH TO THE FINISHED PRODUCT.
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Organic Gate Design. |
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Designed with tenon joints and firewelded leaf-work. |
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Rustic Gate Design. (now commissioned by the client to be started in june) |
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Tenon & wrap round joints, hand forged & power hammer textured bars with organic post design. |
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Vine Gate Project (finished pictures in contemporary gates) |
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The following series of pictures are of a commision we are just finishing, it is a gate built using only traditional blacksmithing techneques. it is a good example of the diference in quality between fabricated work and hand forged ironwork.
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The forging of the healed tenons, starting the frame-work. |
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Forging Tenons For Main Frame |
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Forging Leafs From 20 mm Round Bar |
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The Forged Components Ready For Fire Welding |
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Showing Fire Welded Branches |
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Preparing The Scarfs During Welding |
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The Finished Healed Tenon |
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This shows a typical joint used on the hanging side of the gate, allthough it is considerably slower to build gates the traditional way, the features of the design are greatly improved by this. |
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Aranging The Vine Inch By Inch |
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The Finished Gates |
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Please take time to view each picture as it is intended to help educate possible clients to art of blacksmithing. Every millimetre of bar has been through the fire, all the main bars started life as round bar this is heated up and forged square, resulting in a non uniform look and a surface texture. |
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Punched Holes |
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Showing that each bar is heated up and punches of various shapes are forged into the bar to create a trellis affect.punching holes this way is a very basic way of joining metal work but the effect is outstanding and very strong. |
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Detail |
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Looking closely at the finished gate there are many features like the large punched holes that swell round every joint, these create a design feature all of there own.Every angle the gate is viewed from different features are seen. |
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