Ideas & Advice

The humble garden shed has had something of a renaissance in recent years. Once a dusty dumping ground for tools, lawnmowers and anything without a home in the house, today’s sheds are as weird and wonderful as their owners’ imagination. They

This project blog entry comes from Peter Bruce who has restored a twenty year old wreck of a Handley Page H42 Airliner model, to full flying condition. Mr Bruce used our aluminium flat bar to repair the struts and the undercarriage.

  Sebastian Whitehead - Bronze Ring @Sebs_Handmade uses various materials to make unique jewelry, especially rings.  The latest creation is a decorative ring made from a bronze round bar purchased from metals4U.  https://www.metal

  Bradley Hobday - Miniature Cars Bradley Hobday builds miniature cars. His latest project is a miniature Porsche built using 25mm and 40mm box section purchased from metals4U. Bradley is currently building another miniature and has said he

Helen Breach - Rocket Sculpture Artist and designer, Helen Breach, created ‘Hugme II’ - a crashed landed space-rocket - using reinforced bars from metals4U. Helen shaped, welded and sprayed the reinforced bar to create the basic shape of her i

          Richard Bindon - Kingfisher Metal artist Richard Bindon used 10mm reinforced bar and 26mm tubes purchased from metals4U  to make a bulrush, the grass-like plant that the kingfisher sits on. The kingfisher i

Mike Lupton - Kitchen Fitting Mike Lupton used steel clamps and tubing from Metals4U to add a much needed addition to this kitchen unit. The choice of metals for this feature towel rail ties in with the industrial look kitchen in this holiday home

Stuart Roy - Sculptures Artist Stuart Roy made these amazing sculptures using brass rod bought from metals4U. Stuart uses the brass rods to create a metal “skeleton “ that he then coats with air drying clay which is then painted once dry. The