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P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
A happy student after a hot day in the forge creating a thistle candle holder under the guidance of Pete.
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P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Elegantly forged bird bath. Looks great in the garden and will be loved by the birds, especially in this hot weather.
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P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Fellipe the Flamingo. Created for a garden in Fife, the clients were inspired to commission Fellipe after seeing the Flamingos in the Camargue region in the South of France.
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P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Innovative air conditioning adaptation by Craig as he spends a clammy day turning on the lathe.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
The benches are finished! Almost. Just to shotblast, galvanize, paint & install.
Very much a Ratho Byres Forge team effort.
Design, tooling & masterminding Pete,
sub frame fabrication, Colin,
chunky forging & hole punching Craig & Shona, bending Pete, Craig & Stan
tweaking & assembly Craig & students Stan & Murray.
Photography Mark 😎
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Hammer time for Hereford College student Stan Lee Lawler. 😊
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Hereford student, Stan Lee Lawler, working with Craig Forrest being shown how to gently forge with the 5cwt Massey hammer.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
The chunky benches are coming along a treat. Pete, Craig & Stan have bent the legs to create the seat. Craig & Stan, a Hereford student on work experience for a few weeks, have attached the legs to the sub frame. Looking good 🤩😎
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
The Hot Boys!! 🥵
33C outside today in Ratho!
Thankfully it stayed cooler inside.😎
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Craig & Shona enjoying the heat in the forge today 🔥😁.
Real time, no editing one heat 🔥💪😎🤩 yeah!
70mm square bar with 46mm punched hole. Punching tool made by Pete from progen. stripping press tool also made by Pete.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Joint effort by Pete & Craig today creating a very sweet Raven tiller pin from bronze. The clients were thrilled and it will go on their new barge named Hrafn, the Norse name for raven.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
The GAGA awards!! Thrilled to see our work short listed in the Galvanizing Awards brochure. The Art Award was won by Katie Ventress for The Boulby Miner. A fantastic piece that Pete & I visited on a wee trip to Yorkshire recently.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Hot day! Craig on the heavy stuff, Shona on the pedal, only 4 more to go🔥😎💪
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Chunky forging! 🔥😎
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Launching the new P Johnson & Company website!!
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P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Paddles!! These will form the back rests on a couple of benches we are working on.
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Phew 😁 😎 successful installation for lovely clients in Campbeltown.
Agapanthus railings looking stunning in a Scottish garden. The clients colour choice really makes the metalwork pop, and suits the garden.
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Are we nearly there? 😁
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Road trip!! 😎
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Hottest day so far & we light the fire !! 🔥 😎🥵
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Perfect installation day for the Funky Flow Gates 🤩
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
A truck is not just for work😁 Pete driving the nursery float in the Ratho Gala parade today 😎
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Mark working on a couple of Cor-Ten bird hides nearing completion. The weathering steel will develop a ferrous patina which sits well in the landscape and forms a protective layer on the Cor-Ten steel.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Lots and lots of elements from profiles to spacers and around 1,000 rivets making up this gate, side panel and run of curved railing currently in production. Tomorrow we hope to be ready start riveting. Yeah! 😎😁
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Installation day! Two entrance sculptures loading up for a location in Loanhead, Midlothian.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
A gift voucher treat for this father-in-law and son-in-law team at the forge for a two day recreational blacksmithing course taught by Pete Hill. Big smiles from both of them at the end of the day with a completed swallow sculpture and Leapfroging figures to take home and enjoy.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
The forge is lit! 🔥 there are some things that can’t be done with the induction heater or fit in the furnace. Heating the edge of a dish to create a lip for a bird bath.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Two different handrails for separate clients fitted this week.
The rope handrail is twisted cold on Helga our homemade twisting machine.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Looking forward to some hot forging with these chunky profiles. 🤩🔥
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Sweet little railing to a low patio wall fitted today.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Installation of walled garden gates completed. Mesh panels fitted to the lower part of both gates to keep out the rabbits. 🐰🥕🐇
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Forging dragons!
Craig creating dragon head bottle openers in the forge today.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Installation day in sunny East Lothian. A series of three gates for a walled garden. One fitted, two to go.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Craig putting the finishing touches to the latest sculpture, they will go either side of the entrance to a new housing development in Midlothian.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
A visit to the forge from a group Historic Scotland students studying Building Conservation getting the grand tour from Pete Hill
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Hey everyone, It's raffle time!! www.justgiving.com/fundraising/shona-johnson1 Shona is raffling one of her forged Dragonfly garden sculptures to raise money for Ukraine 🇺🇦 A £10 donation enters you into the raffle with the money going to The British Red Cross Society Ukraine Crisis Appeal 🇺🇦🌻🇺🇦 Don't forget to put your name with your donation!! The raffle will run for five days so please do share the post. Shona will draw the raffle at 5pm on Tuesday 22nd March. The dragonfly will be delivered to the winner and Shona will happily cover the postage to wherever you may be. Best of Luck!!
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
A Smooth install yesterday for the Fire Sprite Sculpture created for Gullane.
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Installation day!!
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Craig’s memorial tree is almost ready to stand outside to allow the ferrous patina to develop.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Sunshine in South Queensferry
Today the team are fitting refurbished posts that we made over 20 years ago. The pavement is being realigned and the posts moved from the flowerbed onto a cope stone with new handrails to suit the new curve of the pavement. Good to see longevity of contemporary metalwork being recognised.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Craig going out on a limb! 🌳
Creating the trunk for a memorial tree for a local church.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Mark gets all the glamorous jobs!
Skillfully spray painting a smooth undercoat on a series of handrails.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Shiny!! Loving how the sunlight highlights the forged textures.
Funky Flow Gates are Back from the galvanizers, dressed up & ready for painting.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Happy Valentines Day❤️!
A bunch of flowers Ratho Byres Forge style 😍
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The last hole is drilled!! Ready for riveting 😎
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
The sparks are flying in the forge today!
Craig tidying up large textured element for the Funky Flow Gate and Vicky dressing up the Agapanthus flower head for the garden sculpture.
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Craig is ready to rivet the horizontal elements on the Funky Flow Gates.
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P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Forged slots, texturing, tapers and forged balls this week. Good progress made this week on the Funky Flow gates.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Excellent use of the induction heater for a localised spot heat.
Craig & Mark forging the back style hinge journals for the Funky Flow gates.
P Johnson & Company at Ratho Byres Forge
Drawing up the next set of gates ready to start forging. Funky Flow, designed by Pete Hill for a house with a mill lade flowing through the garden. This one should be fun 🤩🔥😎
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