Our iron hinge and hinge strap line is based on historical replicas is unique in style and custom made to each order, although we do have some in stock items that ship within a week. View our hardware categories below and click on the image to see more items in that individual group and all of the options that are offered for each item. For instance, our hinge straps have a choice of being used as a faux decorative strap or a fully functioning pintle, butt, or barrel hinge. We also offer small cabinet, furniture, and trunk hinges.
Wrought Iron - Hand Forged By Master BlacksmithIt has been our experience, that when most customers are shopping for wrought iron products, the correct pre-sales questions are seldom asked - which can result in them making a poor choice and a loss of their investment. Here at, we take pride in educating our customers about the products and processes used in creating their, gates, or hardware.
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Click for larger image. The Old Smithy Shop offers a variety of accessories ranging from shutter hardware to drawer chest pulls to window lock pins. All of our hardware is handcrafted using the highest degree of care and attention to detail. Make sure that you see the entire accessories section to find what you need.
We offer our customers full transparency, with the correct information and sources available, to allow the facts about how we create each custom iron product to be evaluated without the sales hype.How it's made and what it is made from is paramount in almost all products. It becomes even more important when purchasing a new residential or commercial metal gate, chandelier, hardware item, or furnishing. You should always question the value of the item you are purchasing, not just make your selection based on a 'pretty' design. How it's made, the raw materials it's made from, can make all the difference in a quality investment furnishing.
Keep in mind that this choice of manufacturing determines your value in regards to how long your metal product will last. Also, how much maintenance will be necessary for the product's longevity. All high quality, hand forged wrought iron products are never welded, hollow steel, or cold bent.The best iron products are handmade by a master blacksmith using a hot forge, anvil and hammer, and with hand applied patina finishes, built to last forever with no maintenance required - there is never a need to powder coat or paint real wrought iron.Be aware that most other companies will try to keep you focused on the design, color, and cheaper price - not the merits of how their lower quality products are made. Because if they disclosed the facts regarding their fast-process painted or powder coated steel or aluminum products, they wouldn't get your business. Most of these other manufacturers try to compare their 'design' with our high quality, solid, hand-forged by a master-blacksmith products, in hopes of dazzling you with the similarity of their fast process, powered coated or painted designs, on the cheap. Keep in mind, if you're not comparing apples to the 'same' apples, you are not getting a bargain, you're simply getting fooled by unscrupulous operators.
However, if you are comparing products equally - based on materials and manufacturing processes - you will find that our factory direct prices are more than competitive. If you take the time to read and understand most manufacturers' 'limited' warranties you will then have all the real facts. Our Purpose for Educating You with the Genuine Facts on How It's MadeWe believe our customers are smart, and if educated with solid, proven, indisputable information necessary to know the difference between the fake and faux that, armed with these facts, our customers will choose us to be their manufacturer. We also believe our customer, after receiving their handcrafted custom designed wrought iron product, will refer us to their friends and family and build upon a developing relationship of mutual respect, thus making this age old quote true again:'BY HAMMER AND HAND DO ALL QUALITY THINGS STAND' Iron - Coal Fired, Hammered by Master Blacksmith 'The Old Fashioned Way'At we take pride in our traditional, superior quality workmanship, and hand craft our custom designer products from the finest iron. Products are created by master blacksmith, who has been classically trained, and utilize old world techniques such as coal firing and anvil hammering.
Solid wrought iron is hand forged to create the finest handcrafted, fine art, hardware, iron furniture and furnishings, and many other architectural elements hand forged in America. Through fine arts and master craftsmanship, all our lives and personal histories can be elevated to a higher level and better standard. Many of the finest designs found throughout history have been copied by modern, cheap, fast production manufacturers. Navigating through the fake and faux designs can be a daunting task in today's marketplace.
More Hand Forged Iron InfoDefective quality iron is redshort if it contains sulfur in excess quantity. It has sufficient tenacity when cold, but cracks when bent or finished at a red heat. It is therefore useless for welding or forging.Iron is coldshort (or 'coldshear' or 'colshire' or 'bloodshot') if it contains phosphorus in excess quantity. It is very brittle when it is cold. It cracks if bent. It may, however, be worked at high temperature. Historically, coldshort iron was considered good enough for nails.
Nevertheless, phosphorus is not necessarily detrimental to iron.Ancient Indian smiths did not add lime to their furnaces; the absence of CaO in the slag, and the deliberate use of wood with a high phosphorus content during the smelting, induces a higher P content ( 0.1%, average 0.25%) than in modern iron. There is more phosphorus as solid solution throughout the metal than in the slags (one analysis gives 0.10% in the slags for 18% in the iron itself, for a total P content of 0.28% in the metal). Wrought Iron Varieties and TaxonomyIn the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, wrought iron went by a wide variety of terms according to its form, origin, or quality. Bar iron - iron in bars, which are the usual product of the finery forge, but not necessarily made by that process. These might be square or flat, and flat bars might be narrow or broad. Rod iron - cut from flat bar iron in a slitting mill to provide the raw material for nails.
Hoop iron - suitable for the hoops of barrels, apparently made by passing rod iron through flat rolls. Plate iron - sheets of iron suitable for use as boiler plate. Black-plate - sheets of iron, perhaps thinner than plate iron, from the black rolling stage of tinplate production. Voyage iron - narrow flat bar iron, made or cut into bars of a particular weight, a commodity for sale in Africa for the Atlantic slave trade. The number of bars per ton gradually increased from 70 per ton in the 1660s to 75'80 per ton in 1685 and 'near 92 to the ton' in 1731. Oregrounds iron - a particularly pure grade of bar iron made ultimately from iron ore from the Dannemora mine in Sweden.
Its most important use was as the raw material for the cementation process of steel-making. Danks iron - originally iron imported to Great Britain from Danzig (now Gdansk), but in the 18th century more probably the kind of iron (from eastern Sweden) that once came from Danzig.
Forest iron - iron from the Forest of Dean, where haematite ore enabled tough iron to be produced. Lukes iron - iron imported from Liage, whose Dutch name is 'Luik.' . Ames iron or amys iron - another variety of iron imported to England from northern Europe. Its origin has been suggested to be Amiens, but it seems to have been imported from Flanders in the 15th century and Holland later, suggesting an origin in the Rhine valley. Understanding True Quality Iron Working Makes All the DifferenceWhen you purchase investment quality furnishings, doors, gates, cabinets, lighting, and hardware, they will appreciate and either keep up with inflation or exceed most other investments. For this reason, becoming wealthy has very little to do with a higher education or having a lot of extra money, it is making truly wise decisions and a state of mind that allows for you to pay once for a good value and continue to grow wealth while enjoying living with your investment.
Not to mention this type of investing has many other benefits, such as owning priceless family heirlooms that have meaning and the ability to pass on your legacy to future generations.In conclusion, if you are in the market for the best quality, hand made in America, solid, hand forged ornamental iron cabinet knobs, entrance door handles, entrance gates, iron fencing, iron furniture, hand forged lighting or furnishings for your residential or commercial project, then the facts speak for themselves - is the right choice - call. We Offer Our Facility to Advance Go Green Technology and The ArtsWe offer use of our facility and the sharing of the experience of our master craftsmen in return for these contributions when available, thus allowing for hands-on experience training in the lost arts. We also allow use of our facility for project development in related fields under any accredited school program. Products produced in these programs are sold and proceeds are used to fund the advancement of these programs with no weight to profit.We also offer the use of our facility for the advancement of environmental energy saving designs in connection with government funded Go Green development. These energy saving designs must be associated with our natural material, building projects such as doors/windows etc.
Without effecting the artistic value. This is a not-for-profit program provided by in the hopes of advancing new technology in conjunction with arts and crafts as it relates to our contribution to the world of fine art craftsmanship.We strive to acquire all correct historical knowledge available related to the subject of blacksmith, ironworks, and metallurgy, so please with any corrections or additions to this educational page.Source.