Abstract: Method for locally galvanizing a ferrous metal article, preferably a strip or a sheet.The article is coated on the surface to be protected from the galvanization by an aqueous suspension of cement and is thereafter dried, heated to a temperature above the melting point of the zinc and moved through a bath of molten zinc. It undergoes finally a cleaning step to remove the masking cement material and possibly a final rinsing.Articles thus obtained may be one side galvanized steel strips to be used in the automobile industry.