Edinburgh ironworks

189 West Main Street
Broxburn
West Lothian
EH52 5LH
Blacksmiths


Tel:01506 856334






EDINBURGH IRONWORKS - BLACKSMITHS

Edinburgh Ironworks is a blacksmiths partnership, based just outside Edinburgh, Scotland. We specialise in the design and installation of hand-forged wrought ironwork. Started in March 1987 by Colin Thomasson as a general Blacksmiths business, it became a Partnership in 1989 when joined by Fraser McIntosh.

WORKSHOP

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. Parking is not a problem, visitors always welcome. Click HERE for map.
For any enquiries telephone on 01506 856334 or email enquiries@eiw2.com

SERVICES & PRODUCTS

What we can do for you....
We specialise in hand forged wrought ironwork and steel fabrications, producing custom-made items such as:
Wrought-Iron Furniture............Hand made to ourdesign, or yours.....
Wrought-Iron Gates................made to measure, , any style you like.....
Wrought-Iron Railings.............made to order, fixed in with lead........


Curtain Poles and fittings, made to measure for bay windows and straight ones, we get quite a lot of enquiries about Curtain Poles for Bay Windows.
For Large windows with heavy curtains, the strongest type or curtain rail is a rolled tube, either Brass or Steeltubes rolled to a curve to fit inside the window and supported by our ridgid fixings of the Marine Type which securely clamp the pole. In fact, though we've never done one, you could also have a Copper tube, which would look beautiful, as long as you could keep it polished up. <

For most windows though, a curtain pole of 20 or 25mm steel round bar, formed with corners, "threepenny-bit" style, to match the corners between the windowsand supported in our forged strap & cotter type of mountings will do the job, and are much cheapoer than rolled tube. This type can also fit closer to the window,and have various designs of forged ends, or screwed on steel spheres. <
We also make mixed wrought-iron and hardwood furniture such as Beds, Tables, Chairs, Fireguards, Window Guards, Mirror Frames and also mixed iron and softwood gates
Fabricated Architecture Ironworks

Staircases (spiral or straight), made to measure, to our own designs or yours Strong room doors, Porches, Gazebos, Balustrades, Balconies, Structural steelwork e.g. flitch beams, lintels.
Security and Automation

We can automate driveway gates, and provide protection for doors and windows.

DESIGN | MANUFACTURE | INSTALLATION

Edinburgh Ironworks can design, manufacture and install any type of Wrought Iron work. We offer a comprehensive service, from initial design to finished installation.

REAL WROUGHT IRON

We are always on the lookout for OLD RAILINGS or other things which are made of wrought iron, as this is becoming increasingly difficult to get hold of.
We will purchase and remove old wrought iron structures and fittings, please do give us a call if you know of any that are going to be scrapped and replaced.

SOLID IRON FORGED IN SCOTLAND

We are skilled at hand forging iron, particulary in forging flat sections edge on, which can only be done with hot metal, and by hand, as far as I know.
We do not buy in so called artistic ironwork, and then spray it together with a mig welder

For any enquiries telephone on 01506 856334 or email enquiries@eiw2.com

Penny-farthing

I started building apennyfarthing last year, here's some pics of it.....by the way the pic above is part of a balustrade we put into a shop, which seems to have wandered into this bit

GALLERY

I am going to remake the gallery using a far simpler method, without any scripts, using pages made by Picassa software from Google

DESIGN

We design our own products and can help with advice about planning permission and applications, and create an unique product, just for you.

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.Oh, and whilst I,m on about it, 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.

Welding Services

We have a mobile welding generator and can do on site welding. And of course, we have an oxy-actelyne plant so can also do cutting or other things, like straightening or repairing old ironwork.

ENQUIRIES

If you have any comments or enquiries, please get in touch by email, telephone. Royal mail, or drop by the workshop, though if you're coming any distance, it'd be as well to phone first.

Profiles

Both of us are always pleased to talk to anyone who comes to our workshop, or to visit by appointment to discuss your wrought ironwork requirments.

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