The forge came first
FORJD began at the fire, not at a commission. Everything since has come out of that, and the trees are what the craft grew into.
The newest technology, the oldest techniques
A piece is drawn, cut, hammered and finished by hand. The marks of that are left where you can see them, because they are the point.
No two pieces are identical. That is not a tolerance we are apologising for, it is what hand made means. A leaf cut this morning and a leaf cut next spring will sit on the same tree and be recognisably from the same hands.
Where a shape has to be exact, it is cut to the same file every time, so a name added in five years fits a tree bought today.
Three metals, each chosen for the job
Copper
Warm, and it changes. A copper leaf will darken and settle over the years rather than staying the colour it arrived. Most memorial leaves are copper for exactly that reason.
Pewter
Weight in the hand. Cast and hand finished, matte grey rather than bright, and heavy enough that a keyring feels like something. Most keepsakes are pewter.
Marine grade stainless steel
Where a piece has to stand outside for fifty years and still be there. It is what the full height trees are built from.
And the wood
Bases are timber, cut and finished here. Each one is a different piece of wood and looks like it.
If you can draw it, we can usually forge it
Most of what we have made started as somebody describing a thing that did not exist yet. Tell us what you have in mind and we will tell you honestly whether it can be made, what it would cost, and how long it would take.
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