As of 2019, we have four bike racks completed and they are in the process of being installed by the different groups (we don’t perform installations as that is best left to the professionals).

At the bottom of this page is a map showing where the different bike racks will be located.  We will update the map once the bike racks are installed.

Great Blue Heron @ Great Swamp Conservancy in Canastota NY

and fixed to the frame of the bike rack are the names of some of our Kickstarter donors

This Great Blue Heron will be installed at the Great Swamp Conservancy. The heron stands about 30″ high and is hand forged from plate steel and round bars.

The cat tails are forged from pipe and angle iron

 

Village of Chittenango

This bike rack was designed by Elizabeth in Chittenango NY and was delivered in October 2018 to the village. The second version for the other end of a bike trail in the village was delivered in June 2019. Delivery was just in time for the opening of the new pedestrian bridge across the Erie Canal

A time-lapse video of the work that went into a component of this bike rack

City of Oneida – Train bike rack

The bike rack is back from the powder coaters and now sports a rich black paint

Here it is fresh out of the paint booth

Thanks to our Kickstarter sponsors who helped bring this bike rack to fruition

This bike rack will be installed in the City of Oneida as part of their trail system

 This bike rack celebrates the rich history of the railroad in the City of Oneida. It’s a work in progress and here are some pieces being worked on

Some of the individual pieces including the wheels, cow catcher, and boiler.

The boiler is rioted together and we had to make rivets for this particular stage

Specific sizes of rivets for each section

The early ideas and trying to work out the scales of the pieces

Original railroad spike (collected with permission BTW)

We went searching through the undergrowth of the old railroad beds to find some original railroad spikes and forged them into pieces the we can use for the bike rack. These pieces will be incorporated into the final design, so there is a little piece of railroad history in each bike rack.

Branching Tree @ somewhere soon…

 Detail of the tree roots

We were inspired by the abundance of forests in Central New York to create this bike rack. The tree branches wrap around the frame and are all heavily textured using custom hammers made from old ball pain hammers.

Flower Bushel @ somewhere soon…

As part of our project, we build half scale maquette or models to show the community what we are capable of doing. This flower piece was an ode to all our mothers.

Each flower petal is hand forged and textured.

Erie Canal Packet Boat

Our love and passion for the Erie Canal is shown in this pice showing an Erie Canal era packet boat with a group of people sitting on top. This is a half size model that we will be using to work out the details before forging a larger scale version.

Clean fresh water @ Erie Canal

A celebration of clean freshwater in our rivers and also the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal used to be a polluted and nasty water body as canal users dumped everything overboard. Over the past few years through the efforts of volunteers and the New York State Parks hardworking ground crews, a lot of the debris has been removed and the water quality is looking good. This bike rack shows a largemouth bass among some native large-leaf pondweed celebrating the gift of fresh and clean water.

Largemouth bass bike rack.

Sketch of largemouth bass

Ready to be cut from plate steel

Formed and textured using a flypress

Outline of sculptural bike rack with formed fish. Now need some pondweed

Pondweed research and some sketches of leaves.

Butterflies @ DeWitt Town Hall

This bike rack was already installed outside the Town of DeWitt offices and we were asked to create some butterflies to make it look considerably more beautiful. The butterflies were laser cut from steel and then forged to shape using hammers and fire! After painting a bright yellow, the butterflies were installed by the Town crew.

They even look good in the snow!