Workshop & Method

Cold-rolled steel and hand-patinated brass joinery

From structural steel shop drawings to chemical patinas aged right in our Portland workshop, we maintain exact architectural tolerances.

Commission Steps

Four fabrication phases from submittal to install

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Architectural Submittals

CAD Drafting

Shop Welding

Hand Finishing

Producing detailed shop drawings for bracket placements, anchor points, and flush joinery seams.

Fabricating heavy structural elements and fine fixtures in quarter-inch steel and raw brass.

Applying chemical patinas and hand-rubbed wax finishes right here on the shop floor.

Reviewing your elevations and engineering requirements to establish exact load specs and material callouts.

Metallurgy

Material options and patination techniques

Steel

Blackened structural steel

Hot-rolled plate treated with chemical darkness and sealed with micro-crystalline wax for a deep charcoal matte tone.

Brass

Hand-rubbed raw brass

Solid architectural brass finished with directional graining and organic oxidation to develop rich living patinas over time.

Request physical metal and finish samples

We ship curated physical sample boxes containing blackened steel, mill finish, and patinated brass for architectural material boards.