I love these metal relief sculptures of fish on the fence of a modern tenement-style building on Cumberland Street in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. They feature a trout or salmon (top left), a stickleback (top right), a grayling (bottom left) and a pike (bottom right).
Someone needs to remind me that this work is easier in bigger stock. This 1/4" fussiness is no good. But it's a collar and this little test grille is getting there. #blacksmithing#blacksmith#metalwork
Moving slowly into sculptural works inspired by nature. A 30 inch tall steel, copper, and river stone cattail or bullrush. #blacksmith#sculpture#metalwork#handmade
Queen's Park Railings on the Southside of Glasgow. I'm not too sure why one is so obviously different from the others, but I suspect it may be due to the need to make a repair to a listed structure clearly discernable from the original parts.
‘Honzōgan’ (true inlay), is central to Japanese metal-working. With many different metals and other materials, they carefully insert pre-cut designs into perfectly matching recesses, using just pressure and a small lip of material to attach them. #japan#katana#museum#swords#metalwork
Dear #CNC#Metalwork#Lazyweb, if you had 100 aluminium enclosures with 1.6mm thick end-plates that you'd planned to mill some openings into (1x rectangular, 6x round) but you've discovered that the alloy is some part-aluminium-part-cowdung rubbish that stretches rather than cuts (even drilling a hole with a twist drill is a horrible experience), what could you do. 4-flute endmills don't even cut, they just bulge the metal. A 4mm 1f endmill is the least awful (so far).
The Phoenix Assurance Company monogram on thr door of their former office at 78 Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow. While this building was constructed in 1908, the Phoenix Assurance Company was created in London in the 1780s to specialise in providing insurance to the new businesses of the industrial revolution, such as cotton mills, which had substantial fire risks associated with them.
This is one of four rather amazing cast iron lamp bases outside the former Dennistoun Public School (now St. Denis' Primary) in the East End of Glasgow. The wings are slightly damaged, but other than that, they're in remarkably good condition given the fact they've been in a school playground for more than a century!
Where steel is crafted, even the doors are clad in armor. This red factory's petite safety-glass portal stands as a vigilant guardian over Nagoya's metal minions. 🏭🛡️
Wrought iron lamp brackets at the Great Western Road entrance to the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Dating from the 1890s, these look like they were originally for gas lamps and have later been adapted for electric lighting.
A thistle, Scotland's national emblem, on one of the intricately crafted wrought iron gates of Glasgow's City Chambers. This building was designed by William Young and was built in the 1880s.