Metal Specialties Welding Services and Custom Metal Fabrication

Repair of Egret with broken legs

Custom Horse Trailer Security Doors

Roots on Former Guard Tower at Lorton Prison

Custom Motorcycle Exhaust Silencer

Titanium repair 2016

Custom Botanical Accents
In August of 2014 Mark was asked to create some botanical accents for a private residence in Potomac Maryland. This is one example used in conjunction with other custom ironworks.

The Nora School Weathervane

Project installed January 2014 in Silver Spring, Maryland

Mark Bailey of Metal Specialties in Spencerville, Md. has done a wonderful job of fabricating the sculpture and making it in various pieces so that it could be easily transported, assembled, and lifted by crane. The finish, (paint), of the sculpture is “powder coating”, an industrial process where the color is baked on.
Dickson Carroll, Architect / Sculptor
DicksonCarroll.com to view more of his work

Sukkat Shalom/Tabernacle of Peace

A public art installation by Dalya Luttwak
Thursday, September 27,2012 at 6:00 pm

Sponsored by: Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery
Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts
On Display at the Washington D.C. Jewish Community Center
1529 16th Street NW, Washington D.C.

“Every year during the holiday of Sukkot, for one week, Jewish families all over the world eat, pray and, weather permitting, sleep in temporary huts (sukkot in Hebrew) to re-live the experience of their ancestors of thousands of years ago, who dwelled in huts while wandering in the desert for forty years before reaching the Promised Land. We can assume that the original sukkah (plural sukkot) was made of fronds of the palm trees that are widespread in the Middle East and have long been used for this purpose. A palm frond, lulav, is traditionally present in each sukkah and is waved along with willow and myrtle branches and a citron (etrog) in six directions in a daily ritual during the holiday. Therefore, I decided to concentrate my interpretation of the sukkah on images of the palm tree. Using steel as my medium, I created the walls mimicking roots of palm, while palm fronds form the roof of my sukkah.” – Dalya Luttwak

Alfalfa Root at 4.5 Months Old
by Dalya Luttwak

Alfalfa Root at 4.5 Months Old
Dalya Luttwak’s “Alfalfa Root at 4.5 Months Old.” In front of a minimalist white contemporary home with big picture windows, Luttwak’s yellow metal sculpture resembles a Jack-and-the-Beanstalk-scale vine, originating in a planter next to the driveway and scaling the front of the three-story structure in Washington, D.C.'s Foggy Bottom neighborhood.

To read the full article from Friday, May 11th, 2012 Washington Post click here

Photo credit, Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post

Tribute to Venice
by Dalya Luttwak

Tribute to Venice
One is by locally and Internationally famous Artisan Dalya Luttwak. Dalya's "Tribute to Venice" in Arsenale, Venice, Italy is a phenomenon from concept to integration. Just the logistics of fabricating this enormous 200+ feet steel "root" and getting the parts to Italy are almost unfathomable.

Metal Specialties brought the artist's concept to life by pre-engineering the design into manageable lengths for shipment overseas and a fast and easy, over water installation onsite in Italy. Sculpture lengths were given a durable Class A powder coat finish in a dynamic high gloss red color.

Press Release:
"...WHAT IF ROOTS COULD GROW IN THE WATERS OF THE ARSENALE?...."
On the occasion of the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, June 1 - November 27, 2011, as a tribute to the city of Venice, the Italian Navy is displaying "...WHAT IF ROOTS COULD GROW IN THE WATERS OF THE ARSENALE?...", an installation by the American sculptor, Dalya Yaari Luttwak.

Dalya's project utilized carbon steel, mig, tig, plasma cutting, stick welding, powder coating and custom delicate items packaging for international shipment. Visit Dalya's web site for more details, lots more information and all the press releases on this and her many other fabulous creations at DalyaLuttwak.com.