Bar designs.

This is some of the possible designs you can make with component parts. It is not the complete list of possibilities and some of them are not to my personal taste. But then it isn’t my gate or railing. You will have a different taste to me. But as you can see examples, you might see a possibility that i have missed.
These have been section out into different bar heights, as said previously in “design” as height increase there are more possibilities.

These are all based on cad drawings not actual photos of the made bars. to make all and photograph would represent a 100 hours work and quite a bit of expense buying the parts. But in time as they are made, I will make a point of photographing them.

The Bars.

200mm + long bars.

This is for short wall railings around 400mm – 500mm tall including railing heads. due to the limited height it limits the options for possibilities.

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I am quite sure you could use a collar in place rather than a twist on the last two. Either way you have 14 possibilities drawn for bar designs. Depending on the length of the rail. that will easy give 3000+ possible designs, for a dwarf railing. Then you have to choose what goes on top, different railing heads or scroll top. That is at least 6 possible. so enough to cover you for 18,000 possible designs.

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400mm + long bars.

I am not going to give individual descriptions of each of these, but as you can see once. It is now possible do double up on certain parts and have two per bar. This can be good to alternate with a single version and a double version, alternating.

With scrolls now you can also double up, using two pairs. The larger double headed 400mm also be come an option. This is 22 possible option as above depending on length of railing that’s over 10,000 possibilities. factor into that different top designs and you are looking at 60,000 plus designs.

Instead of a double item bar with 2 circles. You can have Circle at top, Diamond at bottom, as an alternative bar you could flip it over. you now have plenty of space. So can make the best of 1 item in a bar but different position. With the extra length in the bars the possibilities for design as you can see start to climb. This has now got to be 50 possible bar variations.

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600mm + long bars

These are just single units on a 600mm bar, to give an idea of scale, they are the same as some of those above. but obviously now the likes of the two headed scroll (400mm long) don’t take up the full bar. You now have a massive amount of space to offset the position of a single item.

These were drawn using the 250mm long scroll. As you can see the increased length of the bar now easily gives the chance of 3 parts per bar. As this was a 600mm bar, the last bar. I could have used the 300mm long scroll to fill the whole bar. Rather than the 250mm long to occupy part of the bar. This is always personal choice and you choose what you prefer.

Just scroll flipped the opposite way. makes no difference to me what way i weld them up. As long as it is the way the customer asked for. Otherwise it get embarrassing.

I tried to keep some order to the drawings. with a mistake, the first twist. just just say you can buy fully twisted bar in 3mtr length that you can cut to size. so the twist occupies the whole bar. There is one missing and it isn’t a mistake. It just a pain in the rear to do. Centre collar with double twist. you can’t slot the collar over the twist, and the collar if put in place before you twist the bar, can foul positioning of twisting tool.

All double cage bars with different centre detail options, and of course just the plain double cage at the end. Not all will be to your taste, but this is about showing possibilities.

Double circle

Double diamond/square

Quatrefoil

thing with no name

Double collar

Double C scroll

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There is about 110+ possible examples of what can be done at 600mm long, these are for a railing, that would be 800mm tall, allowing a 130mm railing head on top, and a gap under the railing. For a wall railing this is quite tall. But certainly not unusual

800mm + long bars

All i am going to say here, it that the 600mm bars can be “stretched” to fit 800mm and above, leaving a bigger space between parts. but at 800mm long two double headed scrolls now fit on a bar. The smaller, S scrolls (200mm long) will now allow 4 pairs to fit per bar. Four parts easily fit and for smaller parts even 5 per bar if required. The last drawing was thrown in as an extra after i found the wholesaler did a 300mm double head scroll made from 12mm square. This can easily be used as an interrupt on plain bar as shown,

Juliet balconies use 1100mm tall bars and patio railings either 800mm or 1000mm depending on final height required. A 3ft tall gate uses 750mm tall bars (allowing bottom clearance and 130mm railing heads)

Conclusion

Most of these are based on using square bar, after all you cannot put a twist in round bar. Cages don’t really join weld to round bar (unless you spend a lot of effort grinding them in). Scroll are fine when fitted to round bar. For the rings that fine with round, they do a ring from round bar. but you could contrast the round bar using a ring made from square. Collars they do for round. The remaining parts quatrefoil, thing with no name and diamond will go to round, with some time spent grinding in.

.These are possible example, with some imagination you can figure out how to create even more possible designs of bar. Of course the bars are only part of what makes a design. You have now a basic understanding of bar design. Perhaps now you understand why most companies offer only a few designs. when you get this deep into designs, we are talking maybe 10 million plus possible designs. At 30 mins a railing design to draw out, that is 380 years of work. assuming you work 24hrs a day 365 days a year.

From a construction point it makes no difference to me, buy in required parts and weld in position. As long as i cover the time needed to weld them in all is good. It is nicer to make something different each time rather than the same thing constantly.