These are nice rods for the price, and they work great for my purpose.  Happy with the product material and weight.  Rod itself is metal, and the finials are resin.  I ordered the nickel color; however, although the rod is nickel in color, the finials are more of a bronzed nickel.  Not a deal breaker for me, though, because the color actually accented nicely with the paint and wallpaper colors in the room.