fabrication of railing - part three

fabrication of railing (continued from earlier post)

The scrolls are then welded to the railing. Once the welding is complete, it's off to the painters.

fabrication of railing - part two

fabrication of railing (continued from earlier post)

The design included scrolls placed under the handrail. Here, in a two step process the straight flat bar is heated and formed to make multiple scrolls.

fabrication of railing - part one

After the drawings are complete we use the layout table to begin fabricating the railing. This exterior railing is made of mild steel and will be powder-coated with black paint.

hammered copper table top - part two

copper table (continued from last post)-

After forming the copper sheet, we attach the sheet to the wood substrate for the table.

hammered copper table top - part one

For this hammered copper table top we begin with a flat piece of annealed copper and begin to hammer marks on it.... until we reach the desired look. Then we apply patina to bring out the dimension and match the sample selected.

Scups Sign Installation

Scups restaurant exterior sign fabrication

Scups in the Harbor exterior sign. This sign an original design created by Erica Moody. Scups in the Harbor is located in East Boston. Highly recommended amazing food.

Below are pictures showing the fabrication of the letters using copper sheet. The copper is soldered to give dimension to letters.

Erica is welding the framework of the exterior sign for the restaurant Scups in the Harbor located in East Boston.

Fireplace Facades - Steel Patina

Here are a couple of steel plate fireplace facades we are fabricating and giving a brownish/black patina finish.

Custom forged clips

Heat bending to make clips for french cleat - designed to hang fireplace facade

Stella, Shop Dog

This is Stella. She usually is napping in the office or doing quality control, but here she is checking out a friend's fine care in front of the studio, and out for a walk.

Curving Plates

Curving a piece of flat steel without access to a heavy duty power roller can be challenging. Here we made many cuts on the back side (unseen) to facilitate rolling the radius. These cuts will also keep the piece flexible which will make it conform easier to the wood door that it will be attached to. Laurie is welding close the cuts on the edges which are visible. It then gets sanded and finished with a dark patina and wax. Pictures of the finished project to come....

Polishing Stainless

Here are stainless elliptical tubing fabrications that are to be arms on custom designed gallery chairs. After the stainless tubing is welded, we go through many finishing steps to get the joints back to a mirror polish like the rest of the tube. Here is the final sanding step before buffing to a polish.

Our Shop

Here is the office and lounge with the fabrication area beyond through our custom sliding glass and steel door. Our space has about 25 windows, half of which are south facing, which gives us plenty of nice light to see the fine details in finish work.

This other shot is of the fabrication area as seen from the office. We'll get more shots of the space, machines, and folks who work here as we go along.

Welcome

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