Starting April 18, 2022, quoting and ordering will begin moving from Big Blue Saw to the Xometry website. You'll continue to be able to get fast service and instant quotes, in addition addition to a whole host of new materials and manufacturing processes!
Create something new during Big Blue Saw's sale on custom aluminum and stainless steel parts. Any parts, no matter how audacious the design*, ordered online from the sale stock materials, will automatically receive a quantity discount. The sale materials are aluminum 6061 in 0.063 inch thickness and stainless steel 304 in 0.06 inch thickness.
If you're not sure what those thicknesses are like, note that a penny (US 1 cent coin) is 0.06 inches thick, or 1.52 mm, the same thickness as the sale stainless steel. The sale aluminum is slightly thicker.
The sale takes place on just 2 days: Tuesday, March 14 and Wednesday, March 15.
Both materials have a variety of uses including control panels, fan guards, stencils, drone parts, signs, robot mounting plates, and lighting brackets. But don't feel limited by what others have done: the flexibility of the waterjet cutting tool allows you to create parts for any application you can dream up.
The 0.06 inch thick stainless steel is particularly popular among custom keyboard builders, as it's the right thickness for standard mechanical keyswitches to clip in place.
If you're looking for some creative inspiration: Monday, March 13 is the 96th birthday of Al Jaffee, the Guiness record holder for "Longest career as a comics artist".
One of Mr. Jaffee's regular features in Mad Magazine are his inventions: solutions to everyday problems with an outrageously funny mechanism. There's the twist, though: some of his inventions actually ended up being made. For example, Jaffee imagined a self-extinguishing cigarette long before it became reality. His work is even cited in the patent. Another I noticed recently was the electricity generating sidewalk installed in Washington, DC last year. It relies on pedestrian footsteps to generate electrical power. But, of course Mr. Jaffee thought up the idea many years before. The Jaffee cartoon below is from a collection published way back in 1978!
Not sure what you'd like to create during the sale? Have a look at our example designs, projects made using Big Blue Saw, more projects made using Big Blue Saw, still more projects made using Big Blue Saw, yet again even more projects made using Big Blue Saw, and finally we've seen enough projects made using Big Blue Saw.
Have a design in mind? Get out your credit card and upload your design to our online quoting system now.
* Well, as long as they can be created by waterjet cutting!
On Tuesday, March 14, and Wednesday, March 15, you'll be able to save on custom waterjet cut parts. All parts ordered online waterjet cut from aluminum 6061 in 0.063 inch thickness and stainless steel 304 in 0.06 inch thickness will automatically receive a quantity discount. (Note that this sale is 2 days instead of 3 days like other recent sales.)
Upload your designs now to our online quoting system to get ready.
Customer Logan Reed wrote in recently to show us the beautiful table he made with help from Big Blue Saw.
The legs were waterjet cut from 1 inch thick aluminum 6061 using our low taper process. As shown in the outline of the CAD design, the legs are approximately 18 inches tall.
For information on how this was designed and assembled, check out Logan's earlier blog post on a prototype made back in 2012
Here are the legs newly arrived from Big Blue Saw:
And another view of the table:
See more of the table on Logan's Tumblr site.
We love our customers, and starting Monday, February 13, you'll be able to save with sweetheart deals on custom aluminum parts. During our Valentine's Day sale, Big Blue Saw is offering savings on waterjet cutting your designs from 0.125 inch (1/8 inch) thick aluminum 6061.
Gather your loved ones together and place your orders online to automatically receive quantity discounts.
Here are some examples of how you can save:
This lovable 21 x 21 inch robot baseplate design is normally $114.40 when ordered in quantity 1. That's with waterjet cut from aluminum 6061 1/8 inch thick. During the sale, this same part would be just $56 in quantity 1. That's a savings of $58.40, a savings even the most emotionless robot couldn't ignore.
Normally, our cherished "Butterfly" example piece is $92.10 in quantity 1. During the sale, it will be only $9.20. That's a honeybunch of savings of $82.90 or 90%.
This nameplate design (perfect if your paramour happens to be named "Gavin Chan") when waterjet cut from aluminum 6061 alloy in 0.125" is typically $92.10 when you're getting just 1 piece. But during the sale, you can get it in quantity 1 for just $10.60, or $81.50 off!
Remember that the sale is only on custom waterjet cut aluminum 6061 parts in 0.125 inch thickness ordered through the website during the sale. And the sale ends on February 15. So upload your designs to our online quoting and ordering system now.