Welcome to Metal Veneers
Are you craving a luxury metal finish for your oddments, knickknacks and keepsakes? Do you find yourself dreaming about covering all your precious possessions in a smooth metallic finish? Can you find an outlet for your customising addiction? You finally have the solution, behold the wondrous world of Metal Veneers is here.
Metal Veneers is a brand new, extra specially formulated real metal paint range, guaranteed to be easy to use for even the most discombobulated novice paint user. Our carefully guarded recipe combines real metal elements to provide the very best pure metal finish for patrons with even the most exacting of tastes. Our liquid metal paint method allows you to coat almost any surface in a layer of real metal paint to give you the most natural metallic finish on the market.
Available as to use as both custom filled spray cans and larger 2.5Kg tins for grander projects, our metal effect paint can be easily sprayed onto a surface using spray can or a professional spray gun or lovingly applied with a paint brush if you so wish. Made right in the heart of England, the Metal Veneers paints mix a combination of old fashioned British eccentricity with modern, easy to use techniques. The best that the UK custom paint community has to offer!
Brass - Brass is a metal alloy (in layman's terms a mixture) made of mainly copper and zinc. The actual amount of ingredients can vary from manufacturer to manufacturer and depends on what the metal is being designed to do. Many brass mixtures will also include things like silicon or even arsenic! Brass has been used to make all manner of different things over the years due to its many useful properties. Its low friction quality is useful in lock and gear making as well as making it an ideal anti spark covering for ammunition shells and for tools used around explosive gases. And of course its excellent combination of high workability and durability has always made it first choice for musical instruments, where would we be without a good old fashioned brass band? It's also incredibly easy to recycle, with around 90% of all brass alloy being recycled and reformed.
Bronze - Bronze is an alloy made up of primarily copper and tin. Depending on any other additives, the resulting alloy can be harder than copper alone or have increased stiffness or ductility. Discovery of this allow began the time known as the bronze age, making it easier for prehistoric people to make hard tools, weapons and building materials. Originally these tools were made of a mixture of copper and arsenic, known as arsenic bronze with the earliest examples coming from the Iranian plateau in around 5000 BC. Earliest examples of what we think of as bronze now, with tin being used instead of arsenic come from around 3000BC and were much easier to cast and stronger.
Copper - Copper is a pure chemical element known to scientists by the symbol Cu. It is a soft, malleable metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. It has a famously red/orange colour and oxidises to form a green colour when weathered. It is a pure metal found in nature with some experts thinking it was the first metal to be used by humans - around 8000BC! Copper is one of only four elemental metals with a natural colour that is not grey or silver. Many compounds containing copper have a bright blue or green colour which has been widely used throughout history as a pigment. It is essential for all living things as part of respiration and is even found in the blood of mollusks and crustaceans giving their blood a blue color. Because of its lustrous appearance it was often associated with the Greek goddesses Aphrodite and Venus, with the association being carried through to medieval times where alchemists used the same symbol for copper as for Venus and the female form.
Iron - Iron has been used since ancient times to produce everything from cooking pots to weapons. By mass it is the Earths most common element, playing a key role in both the Earth's crust and it's metallic core. Iron is actually thought to be the sixth most abundant element in the universe, creating Mars's distinctive red surface and being the base for around 1 in 20 meteorites. It is the main ingredient in steel, which uses carbon to make steel 1000 times stronger than pure iron. Steel and other iron compounds are by far the most prevalent metals used in
Wrought Iron - Wrought iron is the simpler of the two processes as it does not require the technology to get the iron to very high temperatures to melt it. Samples of worked meteoric iron have been found in Syria from around 3500 BC. Iron from meteors was highly regarded as iron sent down from the heavens. There is even mention of the substance several times in the bible, with it first being mentioned in the Book of Genesis.
Tin - Tin is a pure chemical element with the chemical symbol Sn. Used as part of the first man made alloy, bronze, tin has been used along with copper since around 3000 BC. Tin was produced as a pure substance around 600 BC, it does not occur as natural substance and so must be extracted from ores hence the later date. Today, tin is used in many alloyed, most notably in solders, tin plating of steel and, due to its low toxicity, in food packaging. Historically, the metal's importance was one of the major reasons for the conquests of Britain, including the roman conquests, due to large tin deposits found in southern England and Wales. Today, most tin is mined in China, Indonesia and South America. At the current consumption rates, Earth's mineable tin will be used up in around 40 years. However, with tin usage going up by around 2% a year, deposits may run out even quicker.
