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Cutting for Artists and Designers Requires Flexible Approach
01 Apr 2005
Settled on the wall of the recently completed luxury housing development in Sheffield, is an enormous emperor dragonfly made from water jet cut stainless steel. It is one of many impressive public sculptures produced by Control Waterjet Cutting, which has become a specialist subcontractor to the architectural and art market after many years cutting precision components.
The manufacture of the dragonfly presented some technical difficulties.
To evoke the intricacy of the very fine and delicate dragonfly wings Waterject needed to allow cuts of less that 2mm apart in 3 mm sheet stainless steel to be made without distortion.
Claire Smith, managing director of Derbyshire based Waterjet, said, "We have developed this market through understanding the needs of our clients. When there is a difficult and complex job with very fine cutting and technical problems we will provide a no fuss solution. The challenges can range from translating an artist's design to a CAD file while keeping its individuality to cutting a particularly detailed form in very thin copper or aluminium."
www.controlwaterjet.co.uk
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