Decorative Handrails

Decorative Handrails

Darren Ainsworth • March 5, 2017 Handrails can quite often be dull and municipal looking, but with a little consideration and experimentation a handrail can become a feature to the architecture of the building and not just a safety rail. A well made set of stone steps...
Blacksmith Made Casement Windows

Blacksmith Made Casement Windows

Darren Ainsworth • September 26, 2016 Blacksmith made casement windows can be found on tudor to mid Victoria buidings and where made of wrought iron, the windows where either a fixed casement, which consisted of an iron surround with the leaded glass tinned to the...
Working With Other Craftsmen

Working With Other Craftsmen

Darren Ainsworth • June 28, 2016 Working with other craftsmen is a very interesting and engaging experience, learning new skills and ideas and different perspectives , one has to keep an open mind, everyone has there own way of working to get to the end result. Lately...
Victorian Style Lamp Restoration

Victorian Style Lamp Restoration

Darren Ainsworth • April 16, 2016 The main reason for this victorian style lamp restoration was the 1/4″ iron rods that were designed to strengthen the corners of the lamp cage its self, had ironically caused the demise of the lamp, the mixing of the ferrous and non...
Wordsmith Meets Blacksmith

Wordsmith Meets Blacksmith

Darren Ainsworth • March 24, 2016 On the bitterly cold morning of february 16th journalist penelope baddeley came to the georgian forge to interview me For a feature in the derbyshire life magazine. We talked for a couple of hours about all aspects of the craft of...