Prepare Yourself: Sale Coming On Custom Aerospace Aluminum Parts
Aluminum sculpture in Ville de Montbard, France. Photo CC BY-SA 4.0 Elekes Andor. Regular customers know that we like to announce our sales early. This way, if you have an idea for a metal part, you...
View ArticleWe Help Move Asteroids
Here's a project that brought Big Blue Saw closer to the final frontier. Sherman Lam from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) wrote to tell us about how some of the parts from a recent order from...
View ArticleSoap
You've seen our parts in action grabbing asteroids, fighting robots, and growing lettuce. But Big Blue Saw helps keep the world clean as well. We were contacted by Saiful Islam about a part needed for...
View ArticleBig Blue Saw Customer Appreciation Sale Sept. 19-21
Big Blue Saw's biggest sale ever runs from Monday, September 19 through Wednesday, September 21 thanks to 3 of our most supportive communities of customers. Big Blue Saw is offering discounts on the...
View ArticleGhost Minitaur's Giant Leap
Ghost Robotics, one of our customers, has been in the news lately because of their Ghost Minitaur robot. What makes this robot special? It's the first first direct-drive, legged robot, and it's...
View ArticleKilroy Reviews Our Waterjet Cutting Services
From James T. Kilroy comes a video review of Big Blue Saw's waterjet cutting services. He uses Big Blue Saw to make custom panels for NEMA enclosures, among other things. In the video linked to below...
View ArticleJoining Parts at 90 Degrees
If you're ready to join two waterjet or laser cut parts together at 90 degrees to each other, you have a few good options.Welding will work, but comes with its own difficulties, including the fact that...
View ArticleDesign Without CAD Using maker.js
CAD without CAD? No, it's not a Zen koan, it's maker.js, an open source project from Microsoft Garage that lets you create CAD designs by just tweaking a few settings. For example, the ring designer...
View ArticleFixing the Error "You have areas inside the part which cross each other."
"You have areas inside the part which cross each other." You may have seen this error when uploading a design to Big Blue Saw's online quoting system. Let's take a closer look at what this error means...
View ArticleTough and Transparent Sale: October 17-19
You have seen parts from Big Blue Saw being used for robots, lighting fixtures, signs, car parts, electric vehicles, and more robots. But you may be having trouble deciding which material to order....
View ArticleSizing Errors When Using Drawing Apps
We often see parts come out slightly smaller than the designer expected when they're designed in a vector based drawing tool like Inkscape, Illustrator or Corel Draw. These parts show up smaller in the...
View ArticleMaking Polycarbonate Parts Any Color
Unlike acrylic plastic, which is available in dozens of colors and styles, it's difficult to color match polycarbonate plastic. Polycarbonate sheet is generally available in small quantities in one of...
View ArticleStopping a Cobra with Custom Stainless Steel Brackets
Rick Johnston was working on his Factory Five Racing MK4 AC Cobra replica (shown above) and wanted an upgraded braking package. His solution: custom brackets waterjet cut from stainless steel by Big...
View ArticleWine Cork Trivet with Made To Order Stainless Steel Links
Ian Ward wrote in recently to show us the wine cork trivet he made with custom parts from Big Blue Saw plus off the shelf hardware.The metal links were waterjet cut by Big Blue Saw from 1/8 inch thick...
View ArticleStainless steel sale coming November 7-9
Here's an early heads up: Big Blue Saw will be having a sale Monday, November 7 through Wednesday, November 9 on stainless 304 in 0.12" and 0.25" thickness. This is for custom waterjet cut parts....
View ArticleCustom Stainless Steel Parts On Sale November 7-9
Starting Monday, November 7, Big Blue Saw is having a sale on stainless steel parts made from your designs. During the sale, all 304 stainless steel parts parts in 0.25 inch and 0.12 inch thickness...
View ArticleEd's BB-8 Drive Now On Astromech Parts Page
We've had a number of customers over the past year building their very own BB-8 astromech droid. One of the more popular designs for the internal drive mechanism comes from Edsjunk.net. We have had a...
View ArticleAudio Control Panel By Mystery Engineer
We received these photos from an engineer who, rather enigmatically, wishes to remain anonymous. So we can't tell you who he is. We can tell you that this assembly was waterjet cut from 1/16 inch...
View ArticleLaser Cut Cake Topper
Need a cake topper for your wedding? Looking for something that embraces your unique sense of style on your wedding day? If you’re a maker like me, the options offered in most stores don’t quite meet...
View ArticleGiant Radioactive Monster Tells You Which Way The Wind Blows
Frank Leto of KOLO-TV wrote to us this month with a few photos and some kind words about some waterjet cutting we did earlier this year.You guys made a design for a weathervane for me about 6 months...
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