Marsh Scene Gate

An arched steel walk gate with a marsh scene cut through the solid plate — a great blue heron among cattails, a heron flying above and a duck on the water — daylight and a flowering plant showing through the cutouts.

A solid-plate arched walk gate with a Louisiana marsh scene cut straight through the steel — a great blue heron standing among cattails, a second heron in flight above, and a duck on the water below. Finished in a burnished bronze-black that lets daylight read the cut line.

This is the clearest proof of the CNC plasma capability on the whole site, and it argues for the shop in a way a specification list cannot: the same machine that cuts skid plate and tank shell cuts a heron’s crest feathers.

Worth treating as a showpiece rather than one card in a grid. Because the design is cut through solid plate, the gate changes completely with the light behind it — which is an argument for showing it large, and against cropping it into a thumbnail.

Unverified: no customer name is attached to this piece in any source we have, so the title is descriptive rather than a “The —— Gate” product name. Ask Jon whether it has a real name, and whether the design was his or the customer’s.

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