Coastal Bronze

For over 5,000 years, bronze has been celebrated for its strength and historic resistance to corrosion. Legacy dating back to the dawn of the Bronze Age. While both brass and bronze are copper alloys, their performance in outdoor environments couldn't be more different. Brass relies on zinc, leaving it highly susceptible to "dezincification", a process triggered by outdoor heat and humidity that leaches the zinc away, leaving behind a brittle, porous structure prone to cracking and red corrosion spots. True bronze utilizes tin, creating a metal built to survive the elements. Because bronze possesses a much higher melting point than brass, it cannot be mass-produced in automated metal molds. Instead, Coastal Bronze hardware requires traditional sand-casting, where an entirely new, individual sand mold is hand-crafted for every single piece we create.