From naval architecture to architecture 

BronzeWork is a part of Classic Marine, which was established 20 years ago to fulfil the need for custom hardware for traditional boats. Having assembled the skills to design and work in bronze, we find increasing demand from architects, garden designers and furniture designers. Our work has found its way into both historic and modern buildings.

Moray MacPhail, the proprietor, started his working life as an apprentice blacksmith, before undertaking 6 years of training as a naval architect for the Admiralty. He works with leading naval architects and boat designers around the world, regularly contributing to boating journals.

Specialising in one-offs and limited runs as we do, we tend to run dumb machines and smart people – in distinct contrast to production manufacturing environments. This leads to the slight oddity that our machines are almost all older than the people operating them!

To see Classic Marine's website, then click here, but please bear in mind that it is written for yachties, so there is quite a lot of jargon. On the other hand maybe you want to end up speaking like a pirate?