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Preserve the iron
Choose methods that respect the casting, its markings, dimensions, texture, and intended future.
About Rundstrom
The long view changes how you treat an object.
Kerri founded Rundstrom Restorations around a simple fascination: sound cast iron can survive generations, return remarkably close to its earlier beauty, and keep going.
Restoration, direct sales, and education belong together here. The work preserves individual pieces while creating better evidence for owners, cooks, buyers, and collectors.
The Rundstrom point of view
“Good iron carries its history forward.”
Preserve the original casting and the evidence it carries.
Describe condition and uncertainty in plain language.
Make every restoration useful to the next owner and the next learner.
Why this business exists
A restoration bench and a better reference shelf.
Kerri found plenty of information about common skillets, Dutch ovens, major manufacturers, and famous logos. The trail became much thinner around tea kettles, corn and muffin pans, griddles, lids, and unfamiliar specialty forms.
Rundstrom does both jobs together: preserve individual pieces with care, and leave behind the photographs and explanations that make the next piece easier to understand.
The next generation
Preserving old things. Making new memories.
My daughters each have their own #3 skillet: one made in Taiwan and one made in China. I bought them as toys and learning pieces so they could start caring for their own cast iron. They’re going to work on their two while I restore some of the American-made pieces. These are their personal pans, not shop inventory.
My five-year-old told me hers looked like it was made in the 1900s for sure.
“Honey, I was made in the 1900s.”
Apparently, the antiques around here include their mother. But this is part of why the work matters to me: old things can become part of new family stories, and learning to care for them can start with a very small skillet.
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Tell the whole truth
A successful transformation can coexist with pitting, movement, uncertain attribution, or another honest limitation.
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Pass knowledge forward
Treat every piece as a chance to produce a clearer photograph, better comparison, or more useful explanation.
From the workshop