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What do you consider to be the most important
project you have ever undertaken and why?
I couldn’t say really – many jobs have been important for
different reasons – one of my old favourites is a giant chandelier
for Wolverhampton Museum & Art Gallery – not only because I
really like it, but its in my old stamping ground! A large balcony
for a Tourist Information Centre in Caerphilly (1995) was the one
of the first,so in retrospect, that became a ladder rung in my
career. The Dyfi Bridge in Machynlleth was my largest project
with contractual implications and moments when I thought I’d
lost everything, so it becomes one of the jobs you feel proud to
have survived.
Where can the readers of Welding World go to see your art?
I have work all over the country – it best to check out my website.
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JON MILLS
Can you tell me something more about your
locomotive project?
I have written a ‘diary’ of its fabrication which can be
seen at www.metaljons.wordpress.com
In many ways this has been the perfect commission – I
love transport heritage and am a big fan & collector of
railway and highways memorabilia. The train fits
perfectly in my workshop (if I take its chimney off) and
I’m happy to keep it all intact for as long as I can. Soon
it will have to be disassembled and packed onto pallets
for shot-blasting, zinc spraying & powder coating. It is
going to sited on a disused railway bridge in Brighton –
close to the site of the locomotive works and marshalling
yards that used to dominate the area. It will be powder
coated in different shades of grey black & white, in order
to emulate the Victorian etching that I have used to
scale it off. (I knew the driving wheel was 6’ diameter &
scaled everything accordingly).
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