As a young boy, weather vane craftsman Anthony Holand of Tuck and Holand spent his summers on a farm teaching himself how to weld scrap metal pieces together into found-art objects. Now Holand’s clients frequently come to him with their own ideas for weather vanes, ranging from original concepts to requests for reproductions.
Each piece is heated, quenched, and hammered by hand, then brazed together into the final shape. Holand’s shop produces anything from blue crabs to dragons, dancing frogs to dinosaurs.
What most people don’t realize about weather vanes, he says, is that the back of the piece needs to have more surface area to catch the wind, because weather vanes point into the wind, not away from it. 508.693.3914. www.tuckandholand.com.Circle 176.
