About Us:
The Fire Poker Store is a family owned Michigan based business with a simple mission statement simple: Provide the best heritage quality functional fireside art for sale in America today, period. All the products we sell are custom artistic creations developed and assembled by us here in our Grand Rapids, Michigan shop. Each of these works of art has a copyright and we value that copyrights protection. We create art primarily from new and recycled metal blended with our own artistic expression. The products and service we offer to our customers and collectors come at the lowest prices possible given the nature of the market and the custom work. We take great pride in our company and our commitment to customer service and in the products we sell. Our online store is designed to provide you with a safe and secure environment to browse our product catalog. It is our hope that when you purchase a Fire Poker or Fire Stoker from us you will be buying a unique piece of fireside art that will remain in your family for many generations to come. Sincerely, Jeff & Lisa Dionne
Contact Us Message:
Problems, suggestions, looking for a new and completely custom Fire Poker or Fire Stoker than we'd love to hear from you! We do monster garage type custom work and yes, we do repairs and refinish work on any items purchased from us. Please complete the contact information form at the bottom of this page and we will contact you as soon as possible. If you would like to email us directly please email us at:
info@firepokerstore.com
Caution Message:
Caution must be applied when using any of our Fire Poker Store products. Our products are made of metals having decorative parts that could harm the user if care is not taken during use. Fires are hot and dangerous. Heat can cause burns and metals placed into a fire and applied to ones skin can cause a serious injury. We recommend that the fireside end of the tool be avoided when heated at all cost. Drinking alcohol fireside, while using these tools, can lead to injury. We require children under the age of 18 be accompanied by an adult when fireside while using any of our Stoker or Poker devices. We recommend that care be taken to place our tools out of harm's way and store them properly so that they do not create a tripping hazard; especially in the dark. The buyer, or any person using or taking delivery of our products, binds and agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Fire Poker Store, its officers agents and employees from any claims, causes of action, suits, debts, damages, costs, charges and expenses including costs and attorney's fees, arising out of or connected in any way with any act, omission, harm, or neglect of our products by the user.
Special Use Notice:
All the Pokers and Stokers we offer are designed as push pull tools. This means that if you use the tool as a prying devise while fireside, with the larger logs for example, the tool may bend or deform during use. Although our products are fashioned from quality, high strength steel tubing and solid steel rod the effects of leverage may cause the tool to bend if used in an improper fashion. Any steel placed under the excessive force of leverage can bend so please use these tools intelligently. Additionally, exposing a Poker or Stoker to heat from a fire for an extended length of time (20 plus minutes) can cause warping and/or deformation of the tool. Please do not heat the business end of our tools to a point that they become red hot as damage may occur.
Graphite Coatings Information:
All the Pokers and Stokers we offer are coated with a very high quality baked graphite finish. This is a job we out source to a local service provider to insure a consistent high quality exterior coating on all our products. No matter the color, the coated finish helps to prevent rust and withstands heat well. With that said, steel can and will rust over time and no matter what we do to the poker end of the tool the graphite coating will eventually become damaged when exposed to heat. This damage to the poker end of the tool will eventually form rust and if this bothers you we recommend the following action be taken to limit the damage over time: Seasonally wash or sand the business end of the Poker or Stoker and apply a light coating of a High Heat / Grill Paint to the heat blackened area (bottom 10-14 inches of the tool). This High Heat paint can be found at any local home improvement or hardware store. For those opposed to the painting option we recommend that you season the business end of the tool. Simple seasoning involves applying a layer of animal fat or vegetable oil, and heating the steel to bond the fat to the metal. This is done in the same manner as seasoning a cast iron skillet.
