Stone Brewing Co. Furniture & Hardware

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While building their East Coast brewery here in Richmond, the fine folks at Stone Brewing Co. - Richmond approached us about creating some custom furniture for the tasting room. Take a peek into the process behind the custom tables and fixtures we created for them.

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Working on picnic and cafe tables.

Custom tables ready for delivery! Reclaimed wood tops created by  Van Jester Woodworks.

And now for our favorite part! The two top photos here show Kyle's assistant, Kallen, forging strap hinges for the tour door at the brewery. In the bottom photos, Kyle is forging gargoyle horn handles designed after Stone Brewery's logo for the door.

There it is! Our hand-forged hardware installed on the tour door made by Van Jester Woodwoorks.

Hope you get a chance to stop by Stone for a brew. And if you do, let us know what you think of the tables and tour door!

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The last piece in the series is based on the rods and cones, photoreceptors in our retinas that give us, respectively, night and color vision. Rods & Cones represents the element of "vision" in the greater theme of "growth." We need vision to imagine a new way forward and motivate us to grow. While I created this piece last in the series, perhaps it belongs at the beginning of the story.

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There's Kyle on the left and Brent on the right, forging knife blanks in our metal studio.

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