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I've always enjoyed making work with as few straight
lines as possible and this Art Nouveau inspired balustrade is a good
example of this since it has none!
I know steel can hardly be
described as a natural material since it's made by smelting iron ore
on an industrial scale in blast furnaces that conjure up images of
Dante's Inferno... but I always find the
texture of forged steel complements natural
materials such as wood, stone and leather wonderfully. I usually finish
off this kind of work by burnishing away
most of the firescale from the forge with a wire brush then waxing
it. This gives the steel a variegated
grey black appearance. However, with this balustrade I completely cleaned
off all the scale with a strong acid to really show off the microtexture
caused by the forging process.
I have to say the waxed steel looks absolutely superb next to the stripped
wood.
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