[TheForge] Scroll maker/hydraulic hammer

[Gladish Family]

Reis rote:
> So I am not saying I wouldnt buy premade
> parts, but most of the stuff I have seen commercially made looks wrong
> somehow. It may be copied from european sources, but my guess is it is
> just whatever is easiest to make with the machine, and what you can
> order off the shelf tooling for.

I think that if somebody had premade pickets that they'd fallen in love with
and already had seventy of, I could design a room, stairway, and railing
that would all be harmonious. If that was the starting point.
But if the rest is already there, it takes a REALLY good eye and a lot of
perseverance to select a premade component that adds to the beauty of the
place and really fits.

David Johnson really made a light turn on for me during his demo last year
at the NWBA conference. He was kind of putting scrollwork in its place, from
an artistic standpoint, as a pretty lazy way to fill a space. Instead, he
said, you need to look a little deeper at what's already happening where
you're going to put the iron, and design around that. The light, the motion,
the air, the activity, the home, the trees; everything you can consider.
That's why stock scrolls and balusters look cheesy to those of us who are
fortunate enough to be able to design for the location- they're not made for
where they're going!
There are so many houses, for instance, that would look dynamite in the
right location, that look stupid in my neighborhood. One client of mine
build a perfect English country cottage (copied from a picture book) on a
rugged cliffside with spectacular views of the Cascades. Perfect in every
way, except that it was all wrong.
Iron's like that, too.
Andy G.