Karthik Fabrication

Karthik Fabrication is our small shop on 4th Main Road. We're in L.N. Puram, not too far from the Srirampura Police Station. If you hear banging on metal, you've probably found us. We do a lot of welding and making gates or window grills. It’s dusty work and our clothes are always stained with grease or iron filings. My father started this and now I'm running it with a couple of helpers. The shop isn't big, but we fit all our tools in there. Sometimes we have to work on the pavement if the piece is too long. The neighbors are used to the noise by now. We don't have a website or anything like that. People just walk in or call us. We get a lot of work from the houses around here. Srirampura is a crowded area, so parking is always a problem near the shop. We try to get the orders done as fast as we can, but manual work takes time. Sometimes the electricity goes out and we have to wait to finish the welding. It's just a normal day for us. We drink a lot of tea from the stall nearby while we wait for the metal to cool down. It’s a simple life but it keeps us busy. We take pride in making things that last, even if our workshop looks a bit messy to outsiders. We just keep grinding every day.