Gates

It has been a real pleasure working on these gates, made from 4mm plate steel and held together with 280 rivets these gates have been oodles of fun. The client wanted a solid set of gates to hide the bin area out the back of the kitchen but wanted the longevity of a set of steel gates. Fully riveted and mortise and tenoned construction brings a lot of life to an otherwise simple and liner design. The devil is in the detail.

Made for a client in Sevenoaks, Kent was this pair of entrance gates, fully mortise and tenoned construction with forged scroll details and hot collar joinery to hold them in place. For belt and braces the piers where built around a large steel channel frame to keep everything in place over time.

It was a long day when we fitted these gates., Starting on site at 5am to fit these gates at The Planters Garden Centre just outside Birmingham. Each gate weighs over a quarter of a ton so we had to use lifting machinery for the hanging of the gates. An organic design was the natural choice and I am really happy with the end result. Fully mortise and tenon and riveted assembly, loads of fun to make and loads of time on the power hammers.

Handrail and side gate fitted in Wadhurst High Street in East Sussex. This lovely hand rail and side gate is nothing flash – just really nice, simple and traditional designs with traditional joinery to compliment the 17th century cottage.

We spent time in North London fitting this little beauty. An automatically closing security gate on a day care nursery painted at request in the company's logo colours. I wanted to capture the chaos associated with children being creative so the design is essentially a collage of their tools. crayons, pencils, scribbled lines, alphabetical cubes and paint. I'm really happy with how the latch and 3d tube of paint have turned out and think that the hot rivets really finish the piece off.

Our new sample gate which has been exhibited at various shows and was the piece which attracted my client for the fitted Birmingham gates. Fully mortise and tenon and riveted assembly with bull rush and leaf finials which have been forged under the Massey.

One of my sample gates that can be seen in our gallery is this lovely little number, I wanted to make a gate for a competitive price but without any compromise to quality of craftsmanship. Here the detail is purely in the joinery and results in a clean and contemporary design.

I finally got round to giving my new sample gate a lick of paint, think its looking pretty smart. In the not too distant future i will be uploading a video of me making this gate in my forge, power hammers, fire welding and all!!!

At Canterbury Cathedral it was all fun and games dealing with high winds whilst fitting these gates. Removed in September, restored and now back from the finishers these gates look stunning. Hats off to Clayson Decorating of Uckfield who carried out all the finishing and guilding. They look superb!!!
The restoration process for this was requested to be very thorough, every repair was numbered and photographed before, during and after each repair. Once each repair was complete a report was written explaining the cause for the damage and measures taken to prevent the same cause of damage in the future. These reports and photographs were compiled to make a restoration report for The Church of England which were archived for the gates history along with any harvestable parts and tooling i had made for my restoration so that they could be reused for future restoration.

One of my commissions for the City of London was the restoration of this pedestrian gate. Several water leaves where missing and new ones were made to match the original. Sectional replacements were made on the scrolls to maintain as much original material as possible and lastly partial repairs were made to the steel repousse motifs to maintain as much of the originals as possible.