Madison Iron and Wood Blog

We have been getting a lot of request for these color options. As you may or may not know, we powder coat our post caps in a premium ultra durable powder coat finish so they last a lifetime. This sometimes makes it a challenge with offering special colors because we won't just go buy a can of spray paint to paint your post caps. The painting process that we put our post caps through is very meticulous. To paint your caps we first have to strip it of all of the oils that comes with the machining process, then shot...

There have been several requests lately for Madison Iron and Wood to make a cannonball style wrought iron post cap for wood posts. We started out with a cannonball post cap for a 4x4 post, and customers loved them. Comments were that they added such beauty to their decks and complimented their black deck railing spindles that they could not imagine their deck without them. Given the very positive response to this line of post caps, we have decided to offer them for 6” post as well. Some customers had both 6” and 4” wood post and needed a complimentary...

One thing I love is my post caps! You can probably notice this as this is the bulk of my product offering right now:-) I remember building some fences when I was a younger man and thinking "That would look good with some post caps". If you go to the store now, all you can find are cheap plastic post caps that fade or crack over time. You can get the copper looking post caps, but they fade and tarnish over time looking terrible. You could also get wood ones that tend to crack, a lot of times when you...