The Metal Peddler
Laser-cut steel signs, key racks and address markers cut, powder-coated and shipped from a small Western Pennsylvania workshop since 2004
🇺🇸 Made in USA
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Where The Metal Peddler products are made
Cut and finished in Pennsylvania
The company says every piece is precision laser cut in its Western Pennsylvania workshop and finished with a baked-on powder coat. Product pages carry the line “Made in Pennsylvania by our veteran-owned small business,” and the site describes a small team of craftsmen and women working in-house rather than ordering finished blanks from a supplier.
American steel
Descriptions on The Metal Peddler product pages state that the signs are made from American steel and cut from 16-gauge stock. The company frames the material choice as part of the product rather than a marketing line, pointing to weather-, rust- and scratch-resistant finishes as the reason it starts with domestic steel.
One address, one building
The Metal Peddler lists a single location — 110 Miller School Lane in West Sunbury, Pennsylvania — and states that orders ship from Pennsylvania, USA. The cutting, the coating and the shipping all come from the same address, which is unusual enough among personalized-goods sellers to be worth stating plainly.
The Metal Peddler publishes its founding year, its ownership and its manufacturing location on its own site: the company says it has been making handcrafted laser-cut metal work since 2004, that it is a family- and veteran-owned business run by Jason and Danielle, and that it operates from West Sunbury, Pennsylvania. We checked product pages in two different lines — wall art and key racks — and both state “Made in Pennsylvania” and describe American steel. On that record we label The Metal Peddler Made in USA. Where a specific item is personalized or custom, buyers should still read the individual listing, since finishing options vary.
The story
The Metal Peddler began the way a lot of small American shops begin — in a back yard. Jason, a machinist and fabricator by trade, set up a shop behind his house and spent years learning to work steel with hand tools, machines and an understanding of how the metal itself wants to move. The company dates its start to 2004, and it has carried the same line ever since: American made since 2004.
What started as one person cutting metal has become a small team of craftsmen and women in Western Pennsylvania. The Metal Peddler, Inc. is owned by Jason and his wife Danielle, and the company describes itself as both family-owned and veteran-owned, with Jason a U.S. Army veteran. The shop sits at 110 Miller School Lane in West Sunbury, a rural corner of Butler County about an hour north of Pittsburgh.
The catalog reads like a list of the things people actually hang on a wall or drive into a lawn: chicken coop signs, key holders shaped like city skylines, memorial garden stakes, address markers, mailbox toppers, fence-post owls. Much of it is personalized, which is the practical reason the work stays in-house — a name cut to order cannot be warehoused in advance, and it cannot be ordered from an overseas container six months ahead.
The Metal Peddler runs a straightforward operation: laser cut from 16-gauge American steel, finish in a baked-on powder coat, include the mounting screws, ship from Pennsylvania. The company offers a 30-day return policy on non-custom items and says plainly that its personalized pieces are made after the order comes in.
Why they matter
Personalized metal décor is one of the easiest categories in which to fake American provenance. A seller can design in the United States, have blanks cut and coated abroad, engrave a name domestically, and still describe the result in patriotic language. The Metal Peddler takes a narrower position: the cutting and the coating happen in its own Pennsylvania shop, and it says so on the product page rather than only on the About page.
The company is also small enough that the claim is checkable. There is one address, one workshop, one phone number, and the same two names — Jason and Danielle — attached to the business on every page. That is a very different thing from a brand with a marketing office in one country and a supply chain in another.
For a shopper trying to keep a gift budget inside the United States, The Metal Peddler is the kind of business that makes the choice easy: a specific building in Butler County, Pennsylvania, American steel, and a craft that has been practiced there for two decades.
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Frequently asked questions
Where are The Metal Peddler products made?
In West Sunbury, Pennsylvania. The company says its pieces are precision laser cut and powder coated in its own Western Pennsylvania workshop, and product pages carry the line “Made in Pennsylvania by our veteran-owned small business.”
When was The Metal Peddler founded?
2004. The company states on its own site that it has been creating handcrafted, laser-cut metal signs, key holders and home décor since 2004.
Who owns The Metal Peddler?
The Metal Peddler, Inc. is owned by Jason and Danielle. The company describes itself as a small family- and veteran-owned business, with Jason a U.S. Army veteran and a trained machinist and fabricator.
What does The Metal Peddler make?
Laser-cut steel signs and home décor: wall art, key racks, address signs, mailbox toppers, memorial garden stakes, hat racks and personalized name signs, most of them finished in a baked-on powder coat.