Always a Gentleman. Merely born too late. An Engineer, maker, and creator. Skiier, reader, dog lover and musician. Not a Selfie: http://i.imgur.com/RAQegQV.jpg
Always a Gentleman. Merely born too late. An Engineer, maker, and creator. Skiier, reader, dog lover and musician. Not a Selfie: http://i.imgur.com/RAQegQV.jpg
he does seem super nice, I've not spent long with him yet, but the day is young.
It is!
Correct! The Tin doesn't really show up
That is truely terrible!
Old bells are pretty hit and miss on the ratio of tin to copper, to much copper and it's to soft to much tin makes it to brittle. Usually people want us to reuse the old metal from bells we are recasting but we buy in properly blended metal in the right ratio and if dealing with old bells we can add tin or copper to get them better
Interesting thank you!
You may also be interested in this: https://youtu.be/MSpvnCTwbFU?si=S3gvVB3jzC_n7Hbc A Tour of this very Foundry with the last of the Taylor family to be involved in the business
Funny you should mention that....
That is the vast majority of our work, new bells, recast bells that have cracked etc etc
Thanks! Never say never but we aren't like the scissor or saw factory in that we have something in progress at every stage on any given day. Bells take weeks to make.
Thanks! Never say never but we aren't like the scissor or saw factory in that we have something in progress at every stage on any given day. Bells take weeks to make.
Yep, we did that one
Better part of £70,000 probably at the time
Not so much Giant bells, we did cast a 5 Tonne one a few years back, after tuning it was around 3.5.
To many!
Well that is another way to do it, but at least we can reuse all the stamps etc.
Accept no imitations!
Whitechapel did shut down yes. But we at Taylors are still here, still making bells. We should have a video on tuning coming soon, I wrote most of it for our YouTuber
Big news coming soon ;)
We know a guy that can weld bells....
We believed this writing was from the late 1800's, it has always happened!
Ha! so would I! good luck moving that manual crane computer!
Our main customers are in the UK with some exported to the colonies of Australia and America. Mainland Europe has foundries in Italy, the Netherlands and France, so there is little call for our bells within the EU.
For me, the best part is that the things I design and make will still be there in 100+ years, and the bells themselves could see 1000 years of service!
Honestly, no. They are our competition after all, and we want to keep bells being made in the UK.
The part I think you are referring to is the letters being hammered into the bell mould, coincidentally our latest video! https://youtu.be/Gh0kl6sCSDE?si=ROhTaPyZHaK8RppJ
One could even go so far as to say.... Heavy Metal
I don't disagree. This is just a teaser for some of the stuff we do.
Thank you very much! there are so many different crafts under one roof from foundry to wood work to machining and tuning. Almost all of them on the Endangered skills list.
We did do a ships bell for the Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier..... No christmas trees though yet :(