Makersmith - Product Design and Prototyping in Scarborough Yorkshire

Stainless Steel & Willow!

17th April 20173rd April 2017 makersmith

When we are approached by our clients with a new project we carefully review their requirements and pick the best materials for the job. We would love to be able to process everything in-house but we would need an immense range of equipment and an immense factory. Instead, when we can’t process components in-house we focus on working with great suppliers who can deliver the high quality of components that we need. We then finish and assemble them, together with the parts that we make to produce the excellent products that our clients are looking for.

A satin finished stainless steel component

Stainless steel parts are a really good example: we bring them in from a range of suppliers and finish and fabricate them ourselves. We have given this a component a random satin finish before building it in to bespoke stainless steel structure.

This satin finish feels almost like a fabric and is an excellent non-directional finish for stainless steel.

At the other end of the scale we are working with some bespoke wicker products made to our design by a UK manufacturer from English willow. We aren’t re-finishing these but have other assembly work to do but it’s another example of the diversity of work that we do and the flexibility we can offer our clients.

Treats!

10th April 20173rd April 2017 makersmith

We use our CNC router for all sorts of bespoke engraving and we were recently asked to produce some custom drawer front engravings for a local cabinet maker; we really liked the idea of these drawers and began thinking about what sorts of bread might be inside and what sorts of treats we would like to see in the TREATS drawer!

The trouble is that the Treats drawer is a bit too obvious – I can see some little hands creeping in…

With our engraving tooling we can achieve an excellent quality of engrave with sharp corners and great definition. You can see what that looks like from this close up of a sample piece of oak:

We can also laser cut and engrave anything from plastic to wood to leather so there’s lots we can do for you at home – or for your business.

See more about what we can do and get in touch…

Boot Stumps!

3rd April 2017 makersmith

Oak logs ready for making into boot and coat racks

We are just starting a great pro-bono project with a local playgroup; they were looking for bespoke wellington boot and coat racks with an outdoor/natural flavour and really fancied something woody… They also had a large quantity of old broom handles inherited from a local Guide group…

The solution – we acquired some oak logs – complete with moss and bark, and are starting to cut down the broom handles and plug them into the logs to make the custom boot racks.

We’re enjoying recycling and working with natural wood all in one project. It’s also fun not to be working to a rigid design and instead being able to make up the design as we go along. There will be some more pictures to share once we have finished but in the meantime it just goes to show that whether it’s a simple improvised design made from logs or a complex detailed bespoke project made on our CNC router – we can do it!

See what else we can do here…