Metal and Masonry
If it can be drawn, we can weld it.
Design and planning, material selection, fabrication, prototyping, quality control, assembly and installation, by certified welders and fabricators.
If it can be drawn, it can be welded on Guadalupe Street
Custom metal fabrication is the reason the rest of this catalogue reaches as far as it does. Design and planning first, then material selection, then the cutting and the welding, with prototyping and quality control built into the sequence rather than bolted on at the end. Work has gone out of this shop into architecture and construction, industrial equipment, furniture and interior fit-out, automotive and aerospace parts, and outright sculpture. References are available on request.
How a one-off job actually runs through the shop
A drawing and a conversation, a material call, a prototype where the geometry is worth proving, then fabrication, quality control, assembly and installation.
Certified welders and fabricators with more than 200 years of combined experience across the crew.
Five industries, one welding table
Our fabrication clients are not all fence customers. We have built pieces for art and sculpture, automotive and aerospace projects, construction and architecture, furniture and interior design, and industrial equipment. Some of those jobs are one-off pieces that will never be made again. Others are components that need to match a drawing exactly, down to the tolerance, because they bolt into something bigger that somebody else engineered. Both kinds of work go through the same shop, on Guadalupe Street, with certified welders and fabricators who between them carry over 200 years of combined experience.
The process does not skip steps because a job is small, and it does not slow down because a job is strange. Design and planning come first, so the piece is worked out on paper or in a model before any steel is cut. Material selection follows, because aluminum, steel and stainless behave differently under load, under weather and under a welder's torch, and the wrong one shows up as a problem years later, not on install day. Then comes fabrication itself, using current techniques rather than whatever is fastest, and for anything unusual we build a prototype first so the client can see and touch the piece before we commit to the run.
Quality control happens before the piece leaves the floor
Assembly and installation are the last steps, not the first ones anyone hears about. By the time a fabricated piece reaches that stage, it has already passed through design, material selection, prototyping and quality control, and the crew installing it built it themselves. That matters most on jobs where the piece has to interface with something the client already owns, whether that is a structure, a machine or another contractor's work. References for past fabrication projects are available on request.
A lot of what starts as a fabrication conversation ends up touching our other lines too. A custom bracket for a stair project turns into a full handrail order. A one-off industrial component leads to a run of guardrail for the same site. If the fabrication is part of a larger build, our general construction crew can take on the rest of the project rather than handing it off cold.