Just got this gate finished to the cleanup stage.  The customer decided on bits of the design which I personally am not sure about, but it's what they wanted.  Too many balls in it for me.

 

Very nice job! Remember it's not always a bad thing having alot of balls.

Greetings Farm,

 

Nicely proportioned .. The elements are spaced well and the overall look is stunning...  I made allot of gates in my time and yours is similar.  Picture a forged circle in the center to break up the vertical lines...  Sometimes an oval is cool.... I think you have enough balls.... I built one for a customer that had a thing for circles.. Yep he drove a Audi..  What do you use for a final finish ? 

 

Forge on

 

Jim

Thanks for the feedback.  Finished product will be powdercoated, black from memory.  I've still go tot go through and tidy up some dodgy welds, de-splatter the whole thing, tweak some of the scrolls etc.  I should have put the dimensions in, it's about 7' (2.1m) tall and just under 4'6" (1.4m) wide and the final weight was around 160# (75kg).  Thank god for a gantry.

 

Andrew

I like it, not too many balls at all.

 

and just read the dimensions, woah!

Very nice ...proportions great.

    

     Looks Victorian...and very expensive.

 

 

         I hope you got well paid so that bot of you get a good deal.

 

 

 

 

Carry on

Very good! I like it a lot has great Symmatry (sp)

Greetings Andrew,

 

How's dat

For a  guy that has only made but one small Gate, how much time-wise do you have in that beauty?

Absolutely amazing craftsmanship! Exquisite work! Your attention to detail and design is recognizable.

Very nice Andrew, the customer will be bragging on it for many years to come.

 

Frosty the Lucky

That...is nice gate!

Nice gate!! How long did it take to make it?

That looks amazing! The black and white photo really adds to it as well.

Thanks all for the feedback again. 

 

The design work is done by Trish, my wife and partner, who has a lot better eye for design than I do.  I'm learning slowly though.  I just have to interpret the drawings into something that works, which has caused the occasional argument in the past when fine elements will not support the weight involved.  She also got a plasma cutter for her last birthday and has been cutting out her own designs.  Checkout the Farmweld facebook http://www.facebook.com/Farmweld page for a couple she put up recently

 

Time so far is about 28 - 30 hours.  I cheated with the bulk of the scrolls and made a jig, which took a quite a while to get tweaked to 'just right', and then it only took about three hours to do the 16 scrolls in the body.  The topper took about 12 hours as it is pretty well all hand done.  The rest of the time was cutting metal for the frame and assembling the whole lot, and then align, measure, adjust, measure, stand back and look, adjust, measure, contemplate some more, commit, cut, tack, measure, (swear), adjust, WELD, decide that a blind man would be glad to see the glaring errors, cut form and fit the collars, get a hernia trying to lift it off the bench, prop it up and take a photo.

 

Trish also worked the photo magic to convert it from colour to B&W, mainly because the photo off the phone was pretty washed out, and the above was the end result.

 

Andrew

Excellent job Andrew, personally I would like to have seen a little more of a C on the top two centre supporting scrolls, as the flat section in their centres does not seem to sit easy on the eye, but thats just my opinion, would be interested in yours on that issue for future reference.

Hi Farmweld,

 

Very nice design and proportions.  The client should be very happy.

 

Best Regards,

 

Preston