Fabrication Unlimited

Spider Web SW Branding Iron

John — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:52:34 +0000

This customer is a teacher of weaving Native American rugs. She gets requests to build looms for her students. So she wanted the ability to incorporate a mark of her own. She asked me to come up with some ideas.

This was the first design and she loved it.

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A Steel Gate to Match a White, Vinyl Picket Fence

John — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:30:52 +0000

This customer wanted a gate to match his newly installed white, vinyl picket fence.

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Fire Pit Screen

John — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:38:16 +0000

This customer called me with the request for a fire pit screen. He supplied me with only the dimensions.

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Collapsible Aluminum Step

John — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:33:30 +0000

The customer needed extra elevation getting in and out of SUV’s. The step she was using was made from wood, but it was heavy and did not collapse.

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Fire Wood Rack

John — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:25:42 +0000

A customer came to me with the issue of not liking any fire wood racks that she had seen. I designed and fabricated this for her. The fire wood rack is built from 1 1/4 ” square tubing. It’s approximately 52″ Wide x 30″ High x 12″ Deep. It is powder coated with a high glossy black for weather protection.

The lower compartment is for kindling and paper. The customer is happy with my design which brought style and utility together.

Matching and Replacing Legs on Antique Chairs

John — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:18:16 +0000

The back legs on my customer’s chairs where bending and breaking when they slid them. The old legs were single pieces of 1/2″ solid rods, with small 1/4″ solid rods attached about 3″ from the top, which did not provide enough support.

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Custom Yard Art

John — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:40:00 +0000

My customer wanted something different to go over this fountain in her yard.

Here’s the newspaper clipping my customer brought me to show the style she liked.

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A Yard Trellis

John — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:28:51 +0000

This customer gave me a simple sketch of a design from which to work. This is my design based from her sketch. The customer liked and agreed to my design.

The yard trellis stands 8′ tall and is 10′ wide. It’s made with 11 gauge 3/4″ x 3/4″ sq. and 3/4″ x 1 1/2″ sq. pre-hammered tubular steel. The web is made from a 3/16″ aluminum rod.

Truck Rack

John — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:07:41 +0000

A local satellite dish antenna installer contacted me to build a light weight rack for his new truck.

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Creating a Gate From a Picture

John — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:43:46 +0000

This is a gate my customer saw in Carmel and wanted me to match.

Here is the finished gate I designed, powder coated and hung at the customer’s home in Fair Oaks, CA.

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