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Home Remodel With Steel Stairway Sections

Customer Mark Dias sent some photos from a remodeling project in a beach home on the Oregon coast. Take a close look at the stairway's steel handrail. Big Blue Saw waterjet cut several custom top and...

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Balisong Folding Comb

According to Wikipedia, "A butterfly knife, also known as a fan knife and in the Philippines as the balisong, is a folding pocket knife. Its distinction is two handles counter-rotating around the tang...

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Martini Mover (Patent Pending) from Jeff Kinney

Summer is almost upon us, and it's time for a cooling beverage. But can you get it to your table without spilling a drop, or worse, dropping the glass? Have you ever had to move a set of martini...

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Sale Coming On Custom Aluminum: June 19

From Monday, June 19 through Wednesday, June 21, you'll be able to save on custom waterjet cut parts made from aluminum 6061 in 1/8 inch (0.125" or 3.2 mm) thickness. All orders placed online will...

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MAKERS! Get Custom Aluminum at Discount Prices June 19-21

Image CC BY-SA 3.0  Experience the National Week of Making with steep discounts on custom waterjet cut aluminum from Big Blue Saw. During this week which celebrates innovation and ingenuity, we're...

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Into the 3rd Dimension

At Big Blue Saw, all of our parts are made using waterjet cutting or laser cutting. Those kinds of parts don't limit your designs to just 2 dimensions. Over the years, we've worked with our customers...

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Custom Aluminum Sale Coming July 17-19

We're having a sale next week on custom waterjet cut aluminum parts. This is an early heads-up so that you have time to prepare your designs. Place your order online for aluminum 6061 in 0.25 inch...

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Salty Bones Stainless Steel Car Tag

Brenda Cruz-Fletcher wrote to us wanting something that would last for a long time and would be a unique expression of her personality. She decided on a car tag (license plate) made from stainless...

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Save On Custom Aluminum July 17 Through July 19

Image of Aluminum CC BY 3.0 Look around you and you'll probably find a dozen things made from aluminum. Its weight, strength, thermal and electric properties all make aluminum the most widely used...

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Introducing the Extrordinary Bellcycle from Alex Bell

  Alex Bell wrote in to tell us about a unique bicycle he built using Big Blue Saw.  From Harlem, NYC comes my latest project, the Bellcycle. Growing up in NYC I always wanted to build things like my...

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Commander Doom 2 from Team Doom Robotics

From Team Doom Robotics and Tyler Nguyen comes Commander Doom 2, an antweight (1 pound) fighting robot that really packs a punch. Based on the Algos design, Commander Doom 2 was built using waterjet...

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Solar Power Breakthrough Tech Built with Big Blue Saw

1336 Technologies is creating the future of energy electric power by reducing the cost of solar cells. A large portion of the cost of solar cells comes from the cost of the silicon wafers needed for...

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Sale Next Week: August 21-23

As you may know by now, Big Blue Saw regularly offers discounts on materials. But since it takes time to get a design ready for a particular stock material that's on sale, it can be tough to take...

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ECLIPSE Prices With a Sale on Aluminum and Stainless Steel

Starting Monday, August 21, Big Blue Saw will be offering deep discounts on custom aluminum and stainless steel parts. During our Eclipse Sale, custom waterjet cut parts made from 0.05 inch thick...

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Brass Semi-Acoustic Electric Guitar by James Jamison

To create something that's a marvel of functionality and beauty takes time. In fact, one customer let us know that he had recently completed a project using parts we waterjet cut for him all the way...

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Sale Coming on Aluminum, September 25-27

Get a head start on getting your designs ready for our next sale on waterjet cutting.The sale material this time will be 0.375 inch (3/8 inch, or about 9.5 mm) thick aluminum 6061.The sale starts on...

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Aluminum Supermodified Race Car Tail Wing

Shaun Gosselin shared with some photos of his race car built with parts from Big Blue Saw. The car was built for the Supermodified Division to race at Oswego Speedway in New York. The tail wing ribs...

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Custom Aluminum Sale September 25-27

Big Blue Saw helps makers turn their designs into real parts. And beginning Monday, September 25, makers can save on custom aluminum parts.  The sale starts Monday, September 25, and runs through...

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Night Owl Industries Audio Amplifier

  Seth Owlson of Night Owl Industries wrote in to tell us about the beautiful amplifiers he's building with the help of Big Blue Saw.  Seth described for us the origins of this project : I’ve been...

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Brogue Motorcycles Lights Up the TU250

Brogue Motorcycles modifies motorcycles and builds custom bikes from scratch. But they wanted to reach a wider audience for their mechanical art, so they designed and created a product they could sell...

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