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We recently (week ending 28th March 09) had a visit from an ironwork enthuasist from Alberqueque, New Mexico who found our site on the web, sent us an email then spent a day with us to learn about our forging techniques, which we were very happy to share with her. So, for any budding blacksmiths or just enthuasists of forged ironwork, drop us a line and come to see us on your travells, its always good to compare notes and ideas, all welcome.

Our Location

Our workshop is sited close by the Union Canal in Broxburn, West Lothian, just off the M8/M9 start, past Edinburgh Airport, 12 miles from Edinburgh city centre.

Free Parking, visitors always welcome. Click HERE for map.

For any enquiries, telephone 01506 856334

or email enquiries@eiw2.com

Here are two new links to email accounts set up to the workshop computer

Send mail to workshop for Colin

Send mail to workshop for Fraser

We are inevitably out on site a lot of the time,

so please leave a message if we are out.

What We Do.

We produce all kinds of wrought-ironwork,

Steel fabrications and structural steel-works.

We can supply cast-iron when needed

We design, make and installall kinds of Wrought-Iron Work for domestic customers and small business projects.

FULLY ANTIQUATED WORKSHOP

We have recently installed a 1914 Pells Punching, Notching and Croping machine,a fine piece of Edwardian engineering of a quality that modern engineers can only dream of,the main steel frames being two and a half inches thick, and the bearings of best phosphor-bronze,machined and fitted by a retired Rolls-Royce machinest.

We also have a shaping machine, a Dean Smith and Grace lath, with tooling to cut most imperial threads,and a Herbert No. 2 turret lath,for batch production of drilled and taped balusters, for traditional cast-iron works.

We have taps and dies for all sizes of Whitworth and BSP threads, as well as modern copies like metric stuff.

Ofcourse we also have a full range of blacksmiths tools, including a giant cast iron manderel, so we can easily forge any size of ring from about three feet to one inch.

Self-Raising Centre-Stop

I recently had to invent this useful contraption, to enable double driveway gates to be automated at a site with rising ground behind the gates.

The automation only works properly with a fixed centre stop to act as a limit.

However, although the gates may be provided with sufficient clearance at the bottom,this would require a very high centre-stop, to catch the gates, too high for cars to pass over.

The solution was to design this pivoting centrestop which hangs vertically down when the gates are closed, and lifts itself clear of the ground when the gates are opened.