For the New Year...

The year went by, working hard,

and with pleasure.

My best wishes

From dream to reality.

I have added a page here to show how to forge reality into the dream of a client.

It also demonstrates that the blacksmith does more than pound iron with a hammer.

Here is  the link :

http://yvesforge.blogspot.ca/p/forging-dream.html

A security system, yes, but with elegance

Increase the security of your home and it's esthetics while youre at it...

Often enough, lovely homes otherwise, suffer from certain details. For instance, basement windows or ventilators barred with straight bars. Like prison bars.

The grill I have forged with a wheat stalk motif has the same defensive virtues as a set of bars. It does not share in its esthetic flaws.

This wheat stalk motif can also be used for a railing

Such a grill takes too much of the burglar's time, demands too much effort. These guys are always in a hurry. They will not mess with this grill.

It is thus possible to increase the security of your home without compromising its style. You can secure the basement windows and decorate them at the same time.

Better than a set of bars isn't it...

And think about it : this grill or any that I forge are not crippled by power outages...

The "wheat stalk" motif, the "Flight of Birds" motif, a bit of history

My wheat stalks are a reproduction of those appearing in Jean-Claude Dupont's book, "L'artisan forgeron". They were doing, and probably still do guard duty in a colonial house in Varennes, north of Montreal, along the St-Lawrence River.

Jean-Claude Dupont,
L'artisan forgeron
Éditeur Officiel du Québec / Les Presses de l'Université Laval
Québec, 1979

We find another motif in the Place Royale in Québec City. This motif is called the "Flight of birds".

Photo Jean-Pierre Lavoie, 2009
Musée de la Civilisation

It must be noted that regulations in  Montreal and Quebec City demand that ventilators be grilled.

With forged grills, you can increase the security of your home, deny easy access to burglars to the basement or the little window in the bathroom without giving your home a prison look.

Finaly, "Wheat stalks", "Flights of birds" or any motif can be installed in front of ugly bars.

A wardrobe for kids & two for the parents.

In the country, at home, you cant be without it. At a minimal cost get a maximum effect.

A  true & inexpensive solution

If you rent a country home, you cannot modify the wardrobe so that the kids can hang their clothes. It's difficult if not impossible for them in a standard wardrobe.

My system solves the problem easily. You hang it like a simple coathanger and the kids suddenly have their own wardbrobe.

And if like everyone you could do with a little more wardrobe space, the system I forge doubles the space for your shirts, blouses, pants, etc.. And all this without expensive renovations.

The father's shirts on top, 
the boy's shirts on the bottom, all on hangers...

A gourmet coat peg

To  come home and hang your coat on a mushroom builds up an appetite.

Unedible...

There is a fullness in this mushroom not unlike that of my coats...

That a mushroom or any other organic form might evolve from an iron bar I heat and beat between my hammer and my anvil will always astonish me.