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!
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.
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?
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.
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!