Hello my Hive friends. It's Friday once again. It's one of my most awaited day of the Week! It's time for the popular #MarketFriday tag hosted by @dswigle. This is an initiative I highly recommend you join or at least know more about. Just click on the link here and have a real cool Hive experience you'll always look forward to.
Today I go back to my tour of this home depot my wife and I have visited during the past month. This is the same store that had the very wide variety of lights and lighting fixtures which I featured in an earlier post (click here for those who missed it). This Friday let me take you to their wrought iron section.
What is wrought iron? The Oxford Dictionary defines this as:
a tough malleable form of iron suitable for forging or rolling rather than casting, obtained by puddling pig iron while molten. It is nearly pure but contains some slag in the form of filaments.
The next question that comes to mind is "What is the main difference between cast iron and wrought iron?" Actually, the basic distinction between the two is simple: Cast iron is iron that has been melted, poured into a mold, and allowed to cool. Wrought iron is iron that has been heated and then worked with tools and allowed to cool. It may be reheated again so further work can be done, especially for the more intricate designs, then cooled down again. In fact it is normal for some wrought iron to have been reheated and cooled multiple times. The term “wrought” is derived from the past participle of the word “worked.”
Wrought iron was used mainly for making nails, horseshoes, nuts and bolts, rivets, rails and railway couplings, pipes to carry steam and water, as well as for ornamental ironwork. Today, wrought iron is mainly used for ornamental purposes especially for gate and fence designs and balustrades.
And they are very expensive. The difficulty in making these designs, especially the more elaborate ones, make it more expensive than cast iron. It is also expensive to install. Some of these designs range from 4,500 to 7,000 pesos (US$90 - 140) per piece. Installation is not included in the price.
I remembered this is the same home depot where, years ago, my wife bought some iron mouldings as design and support for a stand she wanted done. There was this plank of wood that the carpenters working on some repairs in our house were using as scaffold. It looked like it was good wood and true enough it was a hardwood specie. So we decided to make use of it after the repairs and made a stand out of it. Here's a partial photo of the stand.
Here's a couple of close ups.
And a photo of the whole stand.
And that ends this post. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did writing it. And yes, before I forget, some bloopers (photos out of focus, mistakenly taken, blurred, etc. that couldn't make the main post).
Double Imaging (shaky hands)
Too many wires sticking out
Thanks for visiting and may you continue to be safe and healthy as you enjoy a blessed weekend! God bless you all.
(All photos are mine.)
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Friday pa. Hantod Sabado nato 1pm.
What a wonderful post! I like the uniqueness of it and admittedly, I love wrought iron! Especially when they use it ornamentally for fences around a house. It really is beautiful, and it is few and far between houses because of the astronomical price.
They really do use it quite a bit in the Philippines! I really like the little accents adorning the house. Your Home Depot has a lot of them. Now, you are going to make me check mine next time I go! :) I once visited a living museum where they collected iron ore and used a process to melt it into pig iron. They needed to set up a blast furnace close to the mine where the ore could be smelted into pig iron before it was shipped to the steel-making centers in the lower part of the State. They had it set up just as it would have been last century and the entire town worked there. It was pretty cool.
My grandfather worked for a blacksmith at night, helping him. It was in New England here in the States. He worked with him for 40 years and was a blacksmith in his own right, up until 1999 when he passed away. The town and area Churches were adorned with many sought after pieces.
It was real art, such as the work in the Philippines, I am sure! I want to thank you for such a wonderful post that really brought some fond memories of my grandfather back to me.
Thank you so much for taking us along with you! I love going to Home Depot, Lowes, and all of the stores that have home improvement in mind! You are always bringing me to pretty awesome places. It really was interesting to see the pieces that I can see made specifically for the houses they build there. I appreciate the love and support you are giving to #MarketFriday! It is people such as yourself that made it into such a successful challenge! Thank you again for being a part of all this! If anyone reading this is wondering how to do it, here it is!
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Go to the market! Any market will do! Food, clothing, plant, or animal, if you wish. You can go to the zoo, an art auction, and restaurants. Anywhere or anything that you pay money for any kind of service.
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Tell us a little bit about the market, what brought you here?
Post the picture.(s)
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You are very welcome! That living museum sounds like a very interesting place. Would be a real good topic for a post. There seems to be a lot of American history in your family, the kind I only read about or watch in movies. The picture that comes to mind when you mention blacksmith is that of a horseshoe making guy in the old western town. But I am sure the trade and craft have improved considerably during your grandfather's time. He must have been quite an imposing figure.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post and leaving such encouraging words. You're really one of a kind and I am deeply honored to have met your acquaintance. Have a great week ahead @dswigle and God bless your beautiful soul.
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