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Buckminster Fullerene or Football?

Posted on 14, Nov

The world can be divided into two types of people – those whose think the above is a Buckminster Fullerene and those who think it’s a football. And those who think it’s just an overpriced planter. Visit our sister site, Tinpot Alley, to view more stainless steel and metal planters.

Cheeky Metal Monkeys

Posted on 30, Jun

Not a million and one moons ago I went over to Todmorden to take a few pictures of the stainless steel planters we manufactured and installed for the town’s civic planting society (y’know – those groups who put flowers everywhere to make a place look nice), Todmorden in Bloom. We originally did six 1mtr cubed [...]

Zintec Planters

Posted on 26, Jan

Here’s a little job that we’re currently on with at the moment. It’s for an assortment of 27 zintec planters to be painted matt black for a garden architecture firm down in London. If you’re wondering who the guy is to the left lacking a posterior, it’s Matt. They’re due to go for painting some [...]

Bespoke Stainless Steel at The Sheraton.

Posted on 24, Nov

We got these pictures sent ot us of a pair of elongated bespoke stainless steel planters we fabricated for the Sheraton Hotel down at Heathrow Airport. Here they are at either side of the foyer as you walk in. Here’s one of them from the front. Here’s one from an angle. (Although I’m sure you [...]

Premiership Plantpots

Posted on 18, Nov

Not too long ago John and myself had to deliver a house-load of tall hexagonal stainless planters to a certain footballer who currently plies his trade in the Premiership. Or, to be more exact, the reserves of a certain Premiership club. We aren’t ones to drop names into converstions like your average drunk would drop [...]

Business Blogs – The Greatest Midfielder Ever.

Posted on 7, Nov

One of the nicer things that’s been happening of late is that I can now count certain people at Butler Sheetmetal Ltd as regular Tinbasher readers. (If we’re being honest, they’re probably the only regular readers. But such is life.) Only the other day, both Deborah and John were having a gander and showed a [...]

NeedIT – You Got IT!

Posted on 31, Oct

I’ve well and truly learnt my lesson about spouting my mouth off, counting chickens and all that palava after the many disasters that have befallen mostly me to be fair. Things like: The Canary Wharf Garden Show. (Rubbish, sold bugger all and half-wrecked the hire van.) Free photo shoot in Gardeners’ World. (They took the [...]