I have seen the composite collars in use, they were on the gates of the manor house in the village where I lived when I was a short person, Very expensive to make they were used as a sign of wealth. My mentor said you could tell how much money a person had to spare by the way the garden gate was made. CVom[posite collars and hand wrought finials meant they were really well off and rivets and cast finials meant they were somewhere in the middle....Most old gates in the village were basic wrought iron with tenons for the top of the gate, go a little higher up the pay chain and you would see a ball on the gate post and some on the tops of the uprights. A little higher again and you got scroll work in the middle. Most newer gates were welded mild steel as I remember with a few hardwood gates mixed in. Blacksmithing really was dying out in the 1970's and all the forges I knew of were gone by the early 80's ....almost no one had money for hand made by that point.
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I have seen the composite collars in use, they were on the gates of the manor house in the village where I lived when I was a short person, Very expensive to make they were used as a sign of wealth. My mentor said you could tell how much money a person had to spare by the way the garden gate was made. CVom[posite collars and hand wrought finials meant they were really well off and rivets and cast finials meant they were somewhere in the middle....Most old gates in the village were basic wrought iron with tenons for the top of the gate, go a little higher up the pay chain and you would see a ball on the gate post and some on the tops of the uprights. A little higher again and you got scroll work in the middle.
Most newer gates were welded mild steel as I remember with a few hardwood gates mixed in.
Blacksmithing really was dying out in the 1970's and all the forges I knew of were gone by the early 80's ....almost no one had money for hand made by that point.
How awesome. Such a great work 😍😍
Great video series that you dropped last week.