Stainless Steel Design

Scrapping Ships at Harland and Wolff

Posted on 14, Apr

Harland & Wolff Ship Broken for Scrap The linked photoset from this weekend’s Guardian: April 12 2008: Belfast, UK: The MSC Napoli cargo ship lies in a dry dock at Harland and Wolff ship builders as it is dismantled for recycling. The ship was grounded off the English coast after getting into difficulties during bad [...]

Steel Buildings Extreme-ish Makeover

Posted on 19, Feb

It looks like one of my favourite steel buildings in the history of building stuff out of steel has had a bit of a makeover. The Atomium in Brussels has had a bit of a spit and a polish. Atomium post-renovation But it ain’t the only one. According to a recent Euro Inox email, the [...]

Drill Bit Cityscape by Chu Enoki

Posted on 15, Jan

Stainless Steel Design

This is fabulous. Just take a close look and you’ll notice an entire Bladerunner cityscape made out of drill bits and other associated things you may have lying about the old workshop. Well, not our workshop – all the drill bits and hole saws I’ve ever seen aren’t quite as shiny. Chu Enoki, the sculptor [...]

Salt N’ Pepa Bolted Together

Posted on 19, Dec

Desperate to find out what should be coming to ITV 2 at some low-point in your not-too-distant future? I bet you are: On “The Salt ‘N Pepa Show,” VH1 will follow the ladies as they attempt to reunite on and off the stage in this funny, often touching reality series. They soon discover however, that [...]

What is Stainless Steel?

Posted on 20, Nov

Bloody expensive, that’s what. But besides me stating the obvious, this pdf is well worth downloading if you’re asking or have been asked about what stainless steel is. And if you are fully conversant in all its ferritic properties and whatnot, it’s worth it to take a look at the pictures of gummi bears on [...]

List of Online Publications on Stainless Steel

Posted on 14, Nov

It’s always good to get an email from Euro Inox about one of their new pdfs about stainless steel and its respective design or fabrication. This time they’ve managed to place 120 of them onto a single pdf that you can scout through and download to your heart’s content. The email itself reads: About 120 [...]

Stainless Steel Counter for Kebab Shop

Posted on 2, May

I can imagine that you sometimes wonder if any work is actually done at Butler Sheet metal. The problem isn’t so much the fabrication work itself but more the recording and its subsequent sending to my good self. I know, how tricky can it be? Anyway, here’s a rather fancy design for a stainless steel [...]