Cast Iron Handrail Bracket With Windsor Pattern

Beautiful design. Heavy Brackets. Look great.

Have not installed them yet but they look great. Service from your end was terrific. Telephone representative very helpful and nothing broke in the mail. Also very fast service.

Stout and sturdy! Used 12 of these to add handrails to a winder staircase going down to my wine cellar, and they look awesome and the handrails are solid as a rock.

nice design with slightly rough finish. It took some brass paint really well though. The provided screws would only work for fastening directly to hardwood.

Used them in rear stairwell as needed something that looked historic. Like them so well I'm switching out front stairwell as well. #sweepstakes

These handrail brackets have a nice, interesting design and are very heavy and support the rail in a most sturdy fashion. My cons are two: The included screws are too short to take a bite into a stud after piercing standard drywall. They might be OK for thin paneling, but I had to use alternate screws for the supports themselves. The screws also have a very shallow slot, and driving them into oak will test your screwdriver skills. Odds are the screwdriver will slip out repeatedly, dubbing the slot edges and marring the finish. This occurs on the underside of the railing, so only you will know how sloppy they look. My biggest issue however is in the support, which is not machined perpendicular to the wall face, but about 5 degrees out of perpendicular, so when the railing is installed it tilts into the wall. I decided not to quibble about the tilt, and installed both sections of hand railing, but I would not recommend them for the perfectionist.

Surprising quality.. Good price and value.

The supplied screws are not long enough to penetrate the plaster and lath to enter a stud. The holes drilled into the bracket are rather small given screw size...roughly a #6/#8. They should be bigger. Lastly there is play in the bracket and piece that attaches to the wooden hand rail. This will require mortising the handrail to be countersunk to allow the rail to attach securely. It's a decent bracket and looks nice, but will require some adjustments to make it work. In general most handrail brackets would require similar adjustments. Just make sure to hit a stud behind the wall when attaching as the handrail needs to secure a load.

We bought these brackets to attempt to have something a little bit out of the ordinary. At first glance, they look great. They are heavy. But... o As mentioned, the screws are way too short for any installation involving drywall. I will also add the screws are really flimsy. I snapped them off trying to screw them into pre-drilled holes in hard maple. o Also mentioned in other reviews (I should have read them more carefully) is that the brackets are not 90 degrees. That is bad. Oddly, it isn't the worst problem. o The collar portion of the bracket is manufactured about 3/64 larger than the pin it clamps onto. I am sure you could mortise the collar ends into the bottom of the railing and make this work, but this is by no means an ""Easy Surface Mount Installation"" if you do this the entire length of the railing. If you do not mortise the collar, you will just have a wiggly, sloppy mess of a railing. For the price I expected much better. At this point we are going back to inexpensive hardware-store brackets.