Here is what I have been working on for the past few months. They were in poor shape. They will be on display at the the Ringling Museum. in Florida. 

 

They look good , they also look like you poured a heap of passion them!

Greetings Francis,

restorations are always more difficult than starting fresh with a design.  I have done many for churches and big old houses..  I once had to duplicate a gothic door stop for a church.  They brought me a sample one and I put it on my pile and promptly forgot about it. After a few reminder calls I decided to just get her done.  When they come back I played a joke and said I didn't have a chance yet and said I would just return thier sample. I gave them my finished product . Before they left I gave them back their original ., They spent a 1/2 hour matching mine with the original.  Well I ended up with a nice write up in the church bulletin as a go to place for restorations..  Super nice job on your work.. What will be the finish?  Outdoors or indoors ?

Forge on and make beautiful things

Jim

Those are beautiful Francis. How much required repair, replacement duplication, etc? As in how much of the lamps? That's one heck of a job of work.

Frosty The Lucky.

No matter how much work you put in on them, it is always nice to handle well made old ironwork. Yellin is supposed to have said, "Keep the work of the masters always before you."

thanks it was a lot of work about 50 to 60% was replaces. A lot of veining leaves. The hardest part was figuring out how they they came apart. They will be used on the new wing of the museum flanking the stair case out side. That is why I used thicker steel. and good paint. I also put it on a 5 year paint plan.

An absolutely beautiful restoration.  I am (very) new to working with iron, but I did restoration on old houses up to and including restoring old trim and the like.  I can only imagine the work that went into this.

Panzer where in Florida? Have you joined FABA yet

 

Edited May 27, 201511 yr by Francis Trez Cole

Those are gorgeous. I made the mistake of showing this to my wife, now she wants me to maker her some.