Projects

Honda Motor Company: 2013

Posted by torkworks on June 26, 2013

Posted in: Auto Industry, Concrete Molds, Mold Making, Projects, resin casting, TORK, Urethane.

Well, friends, despite the lack of posts, we have indeed, as always, been busy. Recently we had the pleasure of working with Honda of America in creating and pouring urethane molds for their new manufacturing and testing facility in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. The urethane molds we made, are being used to cast concrete bumps and European cobble replicas for various testing procedures. As I type this, concrete is being poured and then set into the specially prepared sections of the facility. The following photos document the making of masters to the final concrete slabs made from the molds. Enjoy!

: The Euro cobble before we put the grout in.

: Tony applying grout to the Euro cobble.

: Euro cobble grouted and ready for silicone.

: Silicone mold of the Euro cobble.

: Resin masters made from the silicone mold.

: Euro cobble (far) and Bump (near) ready for urethane.

: Urethane mold of the Euro cobble hanging out of the crate Mark built.

: Urethane of the bump.

: Concrete slab of the Euro cobble, poured from the urethane molds we made.

: Our crates arriving at the manufacturing facility.

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It was super cool to have had the opportunity to work with such a large company, and the people we interacted with in regards to the job, especially their designer, Jon, were amazingly helpful and super down to earth.

Thanks for stopping by, The TORK Crew

Embassy Suites – Columbus,Ohio

Posted by torkworks on February 15, 2013

Posted in: metal & resin, metal work, Projects, Public Sculpture. Leave a comment

Hey there, family and friends. Hope all is well with you this second month of the new year. We just finished installing 3 steel & resin panels for the Embassy Suites here in Columbus. The panels are made out of 4 sizes of steel rings, and a select few have colored resin inside,ranging from clear to opaque. These things were crazy heavy, just under approximately 400lbs each, and yes, all three of us moved them by hand….with much grunting, muscle straining, and creaking of bones. Enjoy the photos of the install and post install.

: Panels being loaded into van.

: Tony(front) Mark(backside) finishing the anchors on Panel #2

: The final touches of panel #3

: View from the bar area.

: Another shot from the bar.

: …and another from the bar.

: View from the buffet/restaurant

: View from behind the salad bar.

Thanks for stopping by, The TORK Crew

The Pearl

Posted by torkworks on January 25, 2013

Posted in: metal work, Projects, restaurant, TORK. 1 Comment

Well, well, friends at long, last we have a new post, and our first of 2013.

Featured in this post, is The Pearl, a new Cameron Mitchell restaurant in Columbus’ Short North Arts District. TORK worked with a local design firm to make Cameron’s vision a reality. The Pearl is a restaurant, tavern, and oyster bar, focusing on made-from-scratch food.

The metal work that TORK fabricated, consisted of door frames, a butcher block table base, bakers rack, restroom implements (shelves, toilet tissue holders, mirror frames, etc.), a “green house”, faux windows, dining table bases, and liquor cabinet doors. Lots of metal, and if we mill it over long enough, our bodies may just have a retroactive hernia thinking about all of the metal we had to sling by hand. Good times. Enjoy the images we have below.