One special wrought iron gate job was ordered by Pr. P. Itineantu from a church in OBREJA. Fabricating or forging this iron gates took about one month. All the iron bars are punched and than drifted.They are 16mm thick square iron bars and with 17mm square holes drifted in them.This result can only be obtained by forging the hot iron. I don’t think that there is a machine that can do this cold. The gates where than powder coated with a black and gold combination of colors and than red and gold patina was applied. All the grapes where also hand forged peace by peace. This are one of the most beautiful wrought iron gates that had been forged in our shop. In order to get the gates finished, our blacksmith’s have combined different forging techniques and they’er hard work made possible respecting the criteria that where demanded.

Wrought Iron Gates - OBREJA

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A way of saying thank you is this beautiful glass painting that was received  as a gift from the church’s priest, Mr. Itineantu who had painted this beautiful representation from the Holly Bible and gave it to us. Now this beautiful painting sits with great pride in our shop, and we want to say thank you for it to Pr. Itineantu for his nice gesture.

As you already may know our blacksmithing shop had the privilege to host a practical blacksmithing demonstration called:

How to protect the iron elements of a historical building.

If you are interested to see what had been spoken in the theoretical blacksmithing demo and what had been demonstrated in the practical part of the demo you can watch the short movies that we filmed. I am going to point out for you what had been spoken at the theoretical blacksmithing demo.

- identification of the forged iron elements and the damage that can occur in time

- presenting the methods of wrought iron protection against rust, methods of restoration and methods of taking care of the wrought iron elements.

- making of a list, project that is necessary for the blacksmith to have when starting a restoration job.

- cost calculation using the list, project that was done.

Lecture clip: How to protect the iron elements of a historical building

Theoretical:

Inside WALLY Junior’s shop, Stephan Christ, the blacksmith presented some basic methods of  traditional forging. First thing that he had showed was how to make a spike and how to make a ring, offering the students the chance to forge with theyer own hands the same elements. As you can see in the short clips the iron, the metal can be forged even by a young beautiful woman if she has enof will and passion to hand forge iron using nothing else than a hand hammer and an anvil.

Practical : The will and the passion of a beautifful woman

Practical : Made out of with the hands of an actor