The Tinbasher

Guillotine Wanted

Posted on 12, Oct

I’ve just had a phone call from somebody wanting a guillotine. He’s looking for something between 4′ and 6′ that’ll cut 2-3mm. If you have anything along those lines that you’d like to get rid of, just give me a call on 01282 870033 or email me at info@butlersheetmetal.com and I’ll give you the guy’s [...]

Sheetmetalworld.com

Posted on 8, Oct

When I first went scouring the internet for sheet metal related sites and such for linking purposes, I was hardly overwhelmed by a UK presence for sheet metal workers. In general it’s our American cousins who rule the roost. (Nothing new there then). The Tinbasher website was just meant to be a directory for anyone [...]

Welcome to the Club

Posted on 7, Oct

I’ve been admitted to the Round Table of business blogging. The CEO Blogger’s Club The beauty of it being – I didn’t even need to know a dodgy handshake.

Reasons to be Cheerful Part One

Posted on 5, Oct

If it wasn’t for Jackie Danicki at the Big Blog Company I really don’t think I would’ve bothered getting this blog up and running again. I was checking the rankings of our various sites and noticed that The Tinbasher had a little mention on the Times Online business section. For some strange reason she’d cited [...]

And Never The Twain Shall Meet…………..?

Posted on 4, Oct

Trying to incorporate various aspects of the internet into this kind of sheet metal business is sometimes like mixing oil and water. I’m not saying that Butler Sheetmetal is resistant to change – far from it – but the handskill-type job shops are definitely of a bygone era. For example, we have one customer that [...]

It’s Back. And This Time It’s Personal.

Posted on 1, Oct

Thanks to Jackie Danicki at the Big Blog Company I’ve decided to give the Tinbasher blog a firm kick up the backside. When I started this little project it was primarily to help boost the serps of our main company site at butlersheetmetal.com. Butler Sheetmetal Ltd is an archetypal small business. It’s been run by [...]