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We can provide fabrication, duplication and/or repair services
at many levels. We can custom build your interior or exterior
railings, gates and fences.
We also fabricate custom accessories such as mirror and
picture frames, curtain rods complete with hardware and
candleholders to name just a few.
We work with homeowners, designers and landscapers to help
create your ironwork designs.
The Blacksmith
The Blacksmiths of Ancient times constructed forges
that used wood or coal to generate heat. Metal could be
heated and treated at such a temperature that different
pieces could be pounded and fused together (forge welded).
The town Blacksmith was called upon to make many wrought
iron products. Making an axe, a knife, a candleholder, a
set of door hinges, etc. They could also repair rims on
the wagon wheels or replace the horseshoe that got thrown.
Whether the town needed hinges or gates, the blacksmith
made them.
Today's
Blacksmith has a different array of tools available. Mig,
Tig, Gas and Arc welders fuse iron very quickly by creating
an electrical arc or heat from gas.
There
has also been the development of the Gas Forge. This
forge is constructed using modern insulating materials such
as ceramic bricks and clays, utilizing propane or natural
gas as a heat source. Gas forges generally do not produce
the temperatures required to forge weld leaving no other
option but conventional welders.
Wrought
Iron
Wrought
iron (the last company to produce wrought iron ceased production
sometime in the 1960's) was a relatively soft, malleable
metal with a very low carbon content, thus making it an
excellent metal for forming and twisting. It was also extremely
corrosion resistant. This unique characteristic is why so
many Wrought Iron creations that are many years old look
so good today. Most ornamental ironwork created today is
crafted with hot rolled or mild steel.
Today, Wrought Iron is a style or process of the
old craft, not the metal itself. The word "Wrought"
means something that has been bent, twisted, shaped or worked.
Hand
Forged or Forged Iron
Hand
forged iron is metal that has been heated, then hammered
or manipulated to it's final shape.
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