Forging Equipment

Demonstrating Forging Techneques.

Now finished and fitted with the letter M and cross keys.When fitted there will be a finished photo in traditional gate section.

Detail Of Fire Welded Scrolls

Showing the solid hanging bar used as the top hinge, joined with mortise and tenon joints.

Showing Joints

Detail of healed tenon, used on traditional forged gates,looks 100 % compaired to a electric weld.

Forged Leaf

Forged from 30 mm round bar compleates the first stage of the bracket.

Fire- Welding

Fire welding leaves for decorative bracket.

Fire-Weld Completed

The completed fire weld.

The Completed Commission.

Contains ivy leafes forged from 16 mm square bar with drawn out stems forge welded and gracefully aranged.

Example Of Hot Forged Scrollwork

Bevell edge scroll.

Example Of Forged Scrollwork

Massey 3 cwt Power Hammer With Slides

This hammer was used in the second world war for making nails and hardware as part of the war effort, and is still in daily use in our workshop for die forgings and the hot forging of heavy material.

Die Forging Decorative Finial Stage 1

Hot matarial is placed in the dies and roatated untill the inpression of the dies is replicated into the forging.

Stage 2

This process has been used for hot forging iron & steel for hundreds of years , early examples of power hammers date far back beyond the invention of the water wheel.

Finished Forging

The finished forging ready to be cut of on the hardy.

Forgework Demo

These two pictures show a toasting fork been made from two six inch nails fire welded together, used as on site demo of forgework using nothing more than fire hammer and anvil.

The Finished Forging

Wire brushed and beeswax finish nice ornament.

Forged Bar Ends

These two samples were made for the client.These two masters were forged on the fly press and dies will be prodused to enable us to keep costs to a minimum.