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Tiger Illuminated Door Handle

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Tiger Design for Illuminated Door Handle latest piece from Martin Pierce The new Tiger Illuminated Door Handle has now been released into the wild or at least that is how we sometimes feel about the internet. We have in previous posts explained how the...

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Illuminated Tiger Door Handle the Latest in This Collection of Custom Door Pulls by Martin Pierce

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The Bengal tiger takes center stage as the latest illuminated door handle and joins oceanic shapes in this fun collection of color changing door pulls. Martin Pierce has recently added wall lighting to his custom door handle collections.

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Moths a Brief Departure From Cabinet Knobs

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Occasionally we escape from the demands of making cabinet pulls and make pieces for the sheer fun of it and this was the case recently when Martin decided to make 2 bangles to celebrate this writer’s birthday. Since bronze is a heavy alloy and since the...

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How to make a simple mold for lost wax casting

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Over time all things age and the longevity of a mold will depend on the composition of the mold material and frequency of use. Our frog cabinet pulls are a popular item but we still make these by using a simple gravity pour rather than injection method...

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Colorful Door Hardware - How to Use Hot Patinas

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Nature is a strong and continuous source of inspiration for our door handles and cabinet pulls so I wanted to complete this series of posts with a few pictures that illustrate this as well as providing information on how our yellow and maroon color patinas...

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Color in Nature and Hot Patinas for Door Handles

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The green anole lizard was the inspirational basis of Martin Pierce’s lizard door lever . The lizard’s vivid pea green color is however a challenging finish to capture as a bronze patina and one that requires considerable dexterity and access to a blow...

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Shedding Light on a Tiger Door Handle

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The Bengal tiger is a striking grand cat whose features and expressions are legendary and whose appearance have landed him the spot of national animal for both India and Bangladesh. With this in mind, Martin Pierce tackled the task of creating a tiger...

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How to Create Oil Rubbed Patinas for Bronze Door Handles

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Our bronze door handles are offered in a variety of hot and cold patinas but the most popular c are our light and dark antique patinas. I hope to explain how we create these 2 patinas step by step using our daisy cabinet pull to demonstrate the proce...

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Tall Door Grips - How the Design Begins

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Lately, in large part at the behest of designers, we have begun to design some very grand scaled door grips for the public areas of hotels and clubs.

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New Grapevine Door Knob Added to Wine Cellar Door Handle Collection

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Our grapevine door handle collection has, until now, focused on capturing the gnarly quality of vine stems and the distinctive serrated shape of their leaves, with less attention on the grapes themselves. This focus worked well for creating long door...

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