Contact/About Us - J.R.Designs Workshop

About Us

Dear Customer

J.R.Designs is a family run business that have been manufacturing cast brass plaques from 1978 at our small foundry at Leicester. We also manufacture a range of

"Multi fuel " stoves and sell them through our other website www.nova-stove.co.uk

We are probably now almost unique in the UK in offering a range of cast brass and bronze products that are actually manufactured in the UK and sold directly to you, so that you can be assured that you are buying "at source" .

Our Brass and Bronze Plaques are made from brass that is entirely sourced from re-cycled metal from within the UK, so at some time in the past your plaque could have been part of a vintage car, or a Victorian candlestick, or a brass tap in a 1920s house or an antique brass sculpture. Well who knows.

Cast Brass vs Engraved brass. What is the difference?

A cast brass plaque is made from a mould that is created from a "Master Pattern" . The process dates back over 2000 years and is the correct way to produce a quality piece using old English Brass. The result is a plaque with high relief lettering and giving a fine yellow lustre finish that will last thousands of years. THE REAL THING

Engraved brass is of a lower quality brass,(less copper content) it is rolled into thin sheet and cut into the surface to a small depth to produce the lettering. The colour of the lustre is often less yellow than cast brass, and in some cases not even brass. The thin property of this sort of metal also renders it less able to withstand long periods of outside weather.