Our Story

Liberty Forge is run out of Twin Falls, Idaho.

Every design starts as a drawing. Not a stock file, not a clipart silhouette pulled off a marketplace — a ridgeline drawn line by line, a flag laid out stripe by stripe, checked against how steel actually behaves before it ever becomes a cut file.

One sheet of steel

This is the constraint that shapes everything we make. Each panel is cut from a single sheet of American steel, which means every part of the design has to stay connected to every other part. Nothing floats. Nothing gets welded on afterward to fake it.

That rules out a lot of designs, and it's the reason ours look the way they do. When you see a bull elk on one of our panels, you're not looking at an elk-shaped piece of metal — you're looking at an elk-shaped opening, with the wall in shadow behind it. The restraint is the craft.

How a panel gets made

The cutting happens on industrial fiber lasers at American fabrication shops — the kind of equipment that holds five thousandths of an inch across a four-foot panel. We're not going to pretend we run those machines in a garage. They're better at it than we would be.

Then the steel comes here. Every edge gets bent back ninety degrees, which does two things: it forms a frame, and it stands the panel an inch and a quarter off your wall. That gap is the whole reason these pieces work. Light moves through a room over the course of a day, and the shadows behind the cutouts move with it.

The rust patina is applied by hand, one panel at a time, then sealed. It's a chemical process, not a paint job, and it doesn't come out the same twice. Two panels of the same design will be cousins, not twins.

American steel

Domestically sourced steel, cut in the United States, finished in Idaho. We keep sourcing documentation on file.

Why we started

Most metal wall art is printed. A photograph on an aluminum sheet, or vinyl on a backing board, sold as if it were fabrication. It looks fine in a listing photo and flat on a wall.

Steel that's actually been cut looks like nothing else, because the design isn't on the surface — it goes through it. You can put your hand behind it. That's what we wanted to make.