08 Dec A Permanent Installation
Earlier this week, I posted a small teaser picture for what Eastway was cutting out. Nobody guessed what it was. This went a lot better than the X5’s snorkel teaser.
Well, wonder no more, since it’s finished and currently on an airplane, somewhere over Europe or West Asia. For our little Fluid outpost in Doha, Qatar, they wanted us to fab them something to install in the floor. Specifically, a manhole cover. Since AJ + Craig were leaving yesterday, we wanted to send it with them, which required Eastway to work in a relatively quick fashion, along with everyone else involved in its construction. Well, after cutting it out, Eastway handed it off to Tom to weld it together, then it went to Luci for paint. Now that it’s all done and on the plane with them, we feel it’s time to show you the finished product. We’re really happy with the way it turned out; the mild steel was a great medium for the cutting, and the paint ended up giving it a really nice look. Once it gets walked on enough, it’ll get a more appropriate manhole cover look to it; just like a fine wine or scotch (but not a fine jar of mayonnaise), it’ll only get better with age.
Here’s three shots right after Eastway finished up with the mill, followed by three shots of the post-paint stage, before wrapping and shipping. AJ was responsible for drawing up the block letters; he did this by hand, mind you, so our hats are off to him for coming up with such a well thought-out letter design.
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