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Double Sale on Aluminum Wednesday and Thursday
We're going full steam ahead with our biggest sale of the year. This time, we're offering TWO solid aluminum choices to help your project come together. When you order either 1/4 inch OR 3/8 inch...
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Get Ready for Big Blue Saw's Next Sale: April 29 & 30
Prepare yourself: Big Blue Saw's next sale is coming up in 1 week. Starting Tuesday, April 29, and running through Wednesday, April 30, you will be able to enjoy great savings on custom aluminum parts....
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Sale On Aluminum April 29 & 30
On Tuesday, April 29 through Wednesday, April 30, you will be able to enjoy great savings on custom aluminum parts. Any order placed online from 1/8 inch thick aluminum alloy 6061 during the sale will...
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Group Ordering
Recently, a customer wrote to me to suggest that fellow builders (of electric bikes) were looking for parts of a certain material. However, the price was too high for them at the low quantities they...
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Sale on aluminum coming up: July 7-9
I thought I'd let you know: we're putting aluminum custom parts on sale next week, July 7-9.All orders placed online for 1/4 inch thick aluminum 6061 will receive a quantity discount. This material has...
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Stainless Steel and Aluminum Savings August 20-22
We will be having a sale on waterjet cut aluminum and stainless steel parts from Wednesday, August 20, through Friday, August 22. Any order placed online for 1/8 inch thick aluminum 6061 waterjet cut...
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7 New Thicknesses of Stainless Steel Available
If you love parts that look good and last a long time, take a look at our latest additions in stainless steel. When you use our online quoting system and choose Stainless Steel T-304 material, you now...
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Sale on aluminum: October 29-31
You can save big on custom aluminum parts with our sale that runs from Wednesday, October 29 through Friday, October 31. During the sale, all orders placed online for aluminum 6061 in 0.125" (1/8" or...
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Designing Parts for Acetal on the Computer
This guest post is from Jay Doscher. Part 2 of this series will appear next Friday.Getting Started Designing parts for a custom project can be a daunting task if you've never tackled it before. There...
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Prototyping and Working with Acetal Parts
This is part 2/2 in a series of guest posts from Jay Doscher. In the previous article we worked on designing a part on the computer. We sketched out the part on graph paper, designed it in Visio, then...
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Introducing Carbon Fiber Parts
Announcing a brand new material: carbon fiber.Many of our customers have been asking for this strong, lightweight material, and, after much experimentation, we now have a waterjet cutting process...
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An Extremely Basic DraftSight Tutorial
We've been hearing from our customers a lot recently about DraftSight, a 2D CAD design tool that is available for free from Dassault Systèmes. It has all the features you need to get started with...
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Announcing Big Blue Saw's Photo Contest Winner
Congratulations to DJ Kasch, winner of Big Blue Saw's first photo contest. His photo of a motorcycle oil tank emerged victorious with 78 votes to 64 for the 2nd place entry. (We'll have more on the...
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Big Blue Saw's Spring Design Contest: $450 in Waterjet Cutting to Be Won
Big Blue Saw is giving you the opportunity to show off your finest plans for creations to be made with waterjet cutting. The best design will receive a $300 gift certificate from Big Blue Saw for...
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Judges in the Spring Design Contest
If you haven't heard, Big Blue Saw is giving away $450 in FREE waterjet and laser cutting services in our Spring Design Contest.I'm proud and humbled today to announce our lineup of talented,...
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Nesting Files for Optimum Pricing With Big Blue Saw
"Nesting" refers to packing multiple shapes together. As many of you know, you can get a much better per-part price if you put multiple parts of the same design in to a single file to upload to our...
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Spring Design Contest: the Winners
We're proud to announce the winners today of Big Blue Saw's Spring Design Contest. The contest was close because all of the entries had their strengths, but in the end our judges were abe to pick the...
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May the Fourth (of an Inch) Be With You in Our Sale on Aluminum and Steel
On May the Fourth, Big Blue Saw strikes back with the revenge of low prices: a sale on custom CNC waterjet cut parts! This is not your ordinary holiday special: we're offering discounts on both 6061...
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Tips for Fixing Problems with CAD Files
We are often asked to diagnose problems with CAD files that don't work with our online quoting system. There are a couple basic rules for formatting CAD files: enter only the outline of the design you...
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Useful new materials in white
We're happy to announce 3 great new options for white plastic. Many loyal Big Blue Saw customers have been searching for better options for white keyboard plates, enclosures, control panels and the...
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