Just visited your website. You have a spectacular body of work. Did you have many people working for you? How big are some of the stained glass pieces? Do you still have the big shop?

Adrian

Hi Adrian:
When I was doing commercial Metalsmithing, I had a shop that was 11,000 Square feet with a Steel storage Bay that was 3450 Sq. Ft. where I kept my trucks and compressors. The whole facility, including offices, my apartment (1428 sq. ft.)and parking lots was over 33,000 sq ft. I had up to 13 fabricators mostly doing the bread and butter work like security gates and guards. I and my assistants built the church, museum, governmental and public work. Of course private estate work was the most fun.

Now, since retiring and selling my business, I live in a 6600 sq. ft. house that includes studio and shop space. It is also a bed and breakfast for those artistic or romantic getaways. see www.hillhomeforge.com The building began in 1989 as a very run down mobile home trailer. Now it is 185 feet long, has 11 decks, porches and verandas, 13 gable ends, and 18 exterior doors. My metal and glass studio is now more like a laboratory than a fully blown metal shop since my wife joined me. We have wooden floors in the heated part and concrete floors in the 3 garages, torch room and jewelry showroom.

Here is a shot of my jewelry room;
Blue Collar Jewelry: This is a shot of my displays that shows some of my "Blue Collar Jewelry" that is made from copper tubing and electrical wire.

Nic East, Jim Thorpe, PA USA
Creativity begins with a novel thought.

thanks for the comments. The two side uprights are tube, wasn`t happy about doing that, but it kept the weight down( budgets and all that) for the galvanizing. The curved arches at the top are 60mm solid bar tapered out. The leaves are cut from 3mm sheet steel and hot forge and veined using a tool that fits into the anvil (i could get pics if needed.) They were then fullered between the veins using a fullering block on the anvil.
Adrian