Love this bit of metalwork at the top of a building at Victoria Cross on the southside of Glasgow. I particularly like the font used for the lettering. I also like the fact that the technical term for this type of decoration at the top of a building is brattishing.
I think this might be the largest bootscraper in Glasgow. Most are about six to eight inches across, making them just wide enough to scrape the sole of one boot at a time. This one outside Renfield Saint Stephen's Church on Bath Street is about a foot and a half long meaning several people can clean their boots at the same time.
Decorative metalwork on the Albert Bridge in Glasgow. Built in 1868 to a design by Bell and Miller, it's the only substantial wrought-iron arched bridge in Scotland.
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).
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!
I've no idea if it's old or new, but either way, this is a great bit of metalwork over a doorway off Garth Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow.
These pieces of street furniture would have once been found at the entrance to most town houses and many tenement closes. You can still find them outside buildings across the city, but the design in the bottom left is not one I've seen elsewhere. Thanks to Harjam10 on Twitter for bringing it to my attention.
Today's animal from Glasgow's architecture is this rather beautiful grotesque from a handrail on J.J. Burnet's 1906 stable and servant's quarters at 1 Park Gardens Lane in the west end of the city.
The lone surviving Alexander 'Greek' Thomson Lamp Standard on Queen's Drive is looking rather sorry for itself at the moment having been vandalised with silver spray paint. Anyone know who to contact to get it cleaned off without damaging the details underneath?
I love this lock plate on John Nisbet's 1907 terrace of Glasgow Style townhouses on Bute Gardens in the west end of Glasgow.
To me, there's more than a hint of MacKintosh in the decoration, which may be explained by the fact that Nisbet was a former classmate of MacKintosh at the Glasgow School of Art.
It's just a pity it's been rather defaced by the later addition of a handle.
I love these cast iron Juliet balconies on the 1837 Georgian townhouses on Newton Place in Glasgow. The central Palmette or palm frond originates in Ancient Egyptian architecture and was widely used by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson and other Classical Glasgow architects of the nineteenth century.
Moving slowly into sculptural works inspired by nature. A 30 inch tall steel, copper, and river stone cattail or bullrush. #blacksmith#sculpture#metalwork#handmade
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
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).
Six fairly similar coat rack hooks fresh from the forge. The two on the left had a wee mishap whereby the knobs on one end broke off, so they became curls.
A Grahamston Iron Company drain cover on the grounds of the Glasgow Vet School at Garscube in the west of Glasgow. Grahamston Iron Company was founded in Falkirk by William Thomson Mitchell in 1868, and went into liquidation in 1993.
I love this hinge on D.B. Dobson's Art Nouveau masterpiece at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow. At first it looks unexpectedly plain in comparison to the rest of the building, and then it hits you - it's a snake!