Custom Welding & Fabrication
TIG, MIG, and stick welding for structural frames, architectural assemblies, and one-off prototypes. We work in mild steel, stainless, and aluminum with full penetration on every joint.
Forge Services
Custom Metalcraft Services, Shaped to Your Vision
From hand-forged ironwork to precision CNC cutting, every project at Lantern Forge is built by people who still love the strike of hammer on steel. Tell us what you need — we’ll forge it.
Six disciplines under one roof
Each piece passes through a workshop where welders, blacksmiths, machinists, and finishers share a single bench. That’s how a gate, a sculpture, and a structural bracket can all leave the same door — built right.
Traditional Blacksmithing
Hand-forged railings, gates, hooks, fireplace tools, and sculptural iron. Every hammer mark is intentional — we leave the texture that machine work cannot fake.
CNC Plasma & Laser Cutting
High-precision cutting from your drawings, our drawings, or a sketch on the back of a napkin. Tolerances to 0.005″ on plate up to 1″ thick, in any shape the file allows.
CNC Machining & Milling
3-axis milling for brackets, hardware, replacement parts, and small production runs. We hold tight tolerances on aluminum, brass, stainless, and engineering plastics.
Finishing & Surface Treatment
Powder coating, hot-blackening, oil-rubbed bronze, hand-patina, and brushed or mirror polish. We finish what we build, and we build to last through it.
Design & Engineering
Concept sketches, CAD modeling, and structural load calculations for clients who have a vision but need help making it real. We work from a reference photo as easily as a full drawing set.
From spark to finished piece
Every commission follows the same four-beat rhythm. It keeps surprises out of the budget and quality in the work.
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Consult & Quote
We start with a 30-minute call, a sketch, or a marked-up photo. Within five business days you receive a written quote with materials, timeline, and a clear scope.
02
Design & Prototype
CAD drawings, full-scale cardboard templates, or 3D-printed mockups — whichever fits the project. Nothing moves to cutting until you sign off on the geometry.
03
Forge & Build
Cut, machined, welded, hammered, and assembled in our shop. We send progress photos at every major milestone so you can see your piece take shape.
04
Finish & Deliver
Surface treatment, hardware, final inspection, and white-glove delivery or on-site installation anywhere in the region. We don’t consider a job done until it’s installed.
A workshop built on three promises
Custom metalwork is unforgiving — a sloppy weld shows, a wrong alloy cracks. We don’t ship either.
Master-Craft, Not Mass-Production
Every order is built by a named maker, on a named bench. We take on a limited number of commissions each month so quality never has to compete with throughput.
One Quote, No Surprises
The number on the proposal is the number on the invoice. If something changes, we tell you first and put it in writing. We’ve never closed a project over a billing dispute.
Materials We Stand Behind
Mill-certified steel, name-brand alloys, and finishes rated for the environment you’re putting them in. Marine-grade near the coast, food-grade in the kitchen, structural-rated where it counts.
What it’s like to work with us
A few words from the architects, builders, and homeowners we’ve partnered with.
We brought Lantern Forge a pencil drawing of a stair railing and a strict timeline. They sent back shop drawings in a week, fabricated in three, and installed without a single change order. That almost never happens in our world.
Mara Reyes
Principal, Reyes & Co. Architects
I’ve had three gates built for different properties. The Lantern Forge gate is the only one people stop to ask about. The scrollwork, the patina, the way it swings — it feels like it was always there.
Daniel Halsey
Homeowner, Hudson Valley NY
Have a piece in mind?
Send us a drawing, a photo, or a paragraph. We’ll come back with questions, options, and a real number — usually within five business days.