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My new website!

DesignerMetal — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:58:46 -0500

Hey guys I just got my website up and running. I would love it if yall would go check it out and let me know what you think (HONESTLY what you think, No hurt feelings here). Its nothing fancy but its a start. The address is http://www.designermetalworks.net table 1: Table commisioned by a boat captain. Made using an actual bronze ship's wheel.The base is steel and was painted to match the natural patina.

Torcher 2

dendrite — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:54:07 -0500

Torcher

dendrite — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:50:12 -0500

close up of copper leaf with heat patina

topps35 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:22:15 -0500

Really pleased with the heat patina on the leaves.

autumn firescreeen

topps35 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:20:41 -0500

Forged firescreen with vine and copper ivy leaves. Made for a competition in Wiltshire life magazine.
Michelle and Andy

close up of forged wheat heads

topps35 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:02:48 -0500

Close up of the gold leaf on the wheat heads

Wheat Sheaf railings-with gold leaf

topps35 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:01:13 -0500

Fortunately our next comission gave us the opportunity to play with the gold leaf. A retired farmer wanted some wheat railings on his balcony for his new house. Being a farmer he was quite specific about his wheat with the number of seed heads and straight stems, we curved the heads randomly to look like they are waving in the wind, hopefully. The gold leafing went well. very time comsuming and fiddly. The wheat heads were forged on the power hammer, it was quite amazing how much concentration they tiik to try and get them all uniform as wheat grows, one miss hit sent the metal off in the wrong direction. Very impressed that the supplier stated that it will probably out last the house!! Andy was really pleased with his corner posts. More importantly the client was really pleased too.

ornate scroll headboard

topps35 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:30:47 -0500

Hi metalsmiths
Long time no posting, have just been distracted for about 2 hours looking at all the brilliant work posted. A while back we asked for advice on gold leaf to metal for this headboard as requested by the client. Thankfully they agreed that it really does look much better without it. They origonally wanted the gold on the 'splats', technical terminology there. We made the bed through an interior design company and were thrilled to have it featured in a country living magazine.

Days Gone By

eligius1427 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:04:11 -0600

Days Gone By

eligius1427 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:03:10 -0600