How a Hand-Forged Piece Is Made

How a project runs

1. 1

   Design and agreement

   Once the pattern or the model is agreed, we make the drawing and the quote. Then comes the measuring on site and the workshop plan.

2. 2

   Forging

   Every segment of our work is forged by hand in our own forge. The machines we use have one purpose only: to produce force that human muscle does not have.

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3. 3

   Assembly

   The forged segments are joined with rivets and collars into the finished piece. There are no visible welds on our work.

4. 4

   Surface protection

   When the piece is finished, the surface has to be protected.

   Pieces for outdoor use are sandblasted first, so the galvanizing takes as well as it can. After hot-dip galvanizing the spikes and runs have to come off. We do that by hand with a file, so the zinc is nowhere wounded down to the iron. Then the zinc is chemically aged for better paint adhesion, and the piece is powder coated electrostatically in a RAL colour. If the customer wants it, we also patinate or age the piece.

   Pieces for indoor use are usually sandblasted and powder coated, and patinated if you want them so. Or we sandblast the piece, leave it in damp air to rust, and then rub it with a special oil. That gives it the look of age.

5. 5

   Installation

   More than 95 percent of our work we install ourselves.