Heavy Metal Company

Heavy Metal is an award-winning metal workshop, foundry, studio + gallery. We specialise in metal design, manufacture, maintenance + preservation.

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So pretty looking out into the front yard today #gallery #plants

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Sorting through some old pattern stock..
#foundry #foundrylife

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Kayak mould ready to be poured
#foundrylife #metal #moulds #foundry #

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Mould making fun for the Bretts today
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Laying the moulds down for a huge project this week
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Boys bringing the moulds to the yard

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Jen's Mangopare have arrived at The Artist Room Gallery in Dunedin #jenwaterson #art #maoriart #dunedin

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Hard day in the office for Miss Coco #heavymetal #bichion #dogsintheoffice

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Lesile starting his Monday morning with a bronze mess .. #theheavymetalcompany #heavymetal #bronze #fettlingbay

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Here is our latest E-Letter, showcasing some of the projects and people we've been working with lately
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#Heating the #crucible for a #bronze pour earlier this week

#photooftheday #foundry

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Leslie helping pour #bronze into #sandmoulds
#photoofday

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Managed to take this awesome shot of the furnace when it was tilted yesterday

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Molten bronze being poured into a sandmould
#Photooftheday #heavymetal

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Brett filling the furnace with aluminium ingots
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The moulds Brett pumped out earlier today

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Brett moulding earlier this morning

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Mark burning wax out from ceramic moulds

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Jen's wheku coming through the foundry .. Brett's welding the fittings on ready for hanging next stage is patination

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Small feathers .. Patinated Silicon Bronze .. Brett Rangitaawa, 2015