Most commissions start with a photo from Pinterest or a magazine clipping. That is a fine place to start, but a picture does not tell us the span, the load, or the weather a piece will live in - so the first conversation is always about where the thing will actually hang.
If a design will not hold its shape at the size or budget asked for, we say so before any steel is heated, and we bring a version that will actually stand up in iron instead of quietly building the fragile one.
A gate or railing takes three to six weeks from approved sketch to hanging, depending on how much hand-scrolling the design calls for.
