Originally Posted by
Huw Eastwood
Steve, Fantastic job on the Whitfield, superb inside and out. Love the boltwork and the studs/nuts. Not sure about you never doing another though....I bet you've already been looking around for one!
Hi Huw,
Thank you for such a great compliment. Just spent my pocket money on some oak to make a cradle for it, I have some antique iron castors. You might wonder, but I didnt want to confuse the issue this safe like all our English ones was never fitted with wheels, so I didnt want to make it look like it belonged, but it is necessary to move it.
Another one, I must confess there is that thought at times. That Diebold recently on the forum if in the UK would drag me into action, it is art in steel, just so sexy.
But for quite a few years I did look for a Chatwood cylinder safe, not one locked with the key broken inside and had been in the floods we had as well, yes I did a little research. Strange thing is history says they were supplied in fairly large numbers to 'was it' Allied Dairies, yet that was in the twenties I believe and they just dont turn up. Hens teeth it would appear and so little about them on the web either. Even their size is a mystery let alone the weight.
So if its confession time, yes I might but it would have to be something a little special aethetically. I do have my eye on something else that pertains to this forum, so I might be back as they say.
You take care, Steve.