October and November 2009 News
Apologies for the lack of news updates since July. As ever, we continue to make interesting things and here is a quick summary of the last few weeks.
Autumn always sees a flood of orders for plaques of all kinds, particularly for award ceremonies and listed buildings. Our customer base for plaques is unusually diverse, two examples in October being Sir Roger Moore and the Court of King Zog Appreciation Society! We are working our way a lot of plaques for Co. Tipperary in Ireland and have just received our first order from India - a bronze plaque for a pharmaceutical company.
An interesting project for the National Trust involves some prototype brass rubbing plates for children - as shown below.
A lorry from Barcelona …
Arrived in October with a 12ft long human hand and forearm in h.d. foam. All the Spanish sculptor required of us was the whole thing in cast aluminium, returned to Barcelona in 4 weeks! Casting from solid foam originals is very tricky and only made possible by our skilled and very experienced moulders. The photo shows Chris Morris weighing up how and where to split the hand up into sections.
October also saw the installation of a very unusual set of gates for a Cheshire estate. The stone gateposts would not carry the weight of iron gates and no support rollers or wheels were allowed, so we made them entirely in aluminium. As it’s hardly a good metal to forge, the scrolls and gate frames were cast and the infill bars laser cut and rivetted. The main gates operate electronically while the side gates are conventional.
