The foundations of our current products are not evolved from new technology. The skills have been around as long as man has been working with metals and wood.

Over the years I have worked on thousands of brass door knockers. This was the first time I experienced the actual birth of one.

The brass door knocker selection offered by Your-Door-Knocker is produced in foundries by the sand casting method. This method involves pouring molten brass into a mold made of sand and letting it cool to form a casting.

Our experience in the foundry making our brass door knocker didn’t start in the foundry at all. As a matter of fact there is a lot of work to be done before the foundry work can even begin. First of all we need something to cast. We call this the pattern.
It seems that our brass [...]

The posts have been scarce lately as I have been spending a good deal of time in the foundry with the development of our latest brass door knocker design.
Two years ago I would have never imagined actually creating our own castings. Until now we have sourced our castings from production foundries many located in [...]