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Serving Dallas Fort Worth, Texas
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Fabrication
The bracket, frame or one-off part that does not exist on a shelf — measured, designed, built and fitted.
Custom fabrication is what you order when what you need is not in a catalogue: a bracket that has to carry a real load in a space nobody designed for, a frame that fits a gap to the millimetre, a guard for a machine that was made before guards were fitted, a one-off piece that exists nowhere else.
People picture welding, but the job is six steps and welding is one of them — measure, design, select material, cut and prepare, fit and weld, then finish. The design step is where you have the most influence and it costs nothing to use it: changing a drawing is free, changing fabricated steel is not.
Brackets, mounts and equipment supports
Frames, racking, shelving and storage structures
Machine guards, covers and access panels
Prototype parts and short repeat runs
Modifications and adapters for existing equipment
One-off pieces — table bases, fire pits, signage frames, planters
A sketch on paper with rough dimensions is a perfectly good starting point — the design gets firmed up before anything is cut.
Four Steps
The space as it really is, what the part has to do, and what it will be fixed to. Nothing assumed square.
A drawing, a material spec, a finish and a written scope, so both of us describe the job the same way.
Cut, prepare, fit and weld in mild steel, stainless or aluminium as the job calls for.
Installed and adjusted on site, or finished and delivered ready to bolt up.
We cover Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Irving, Grand Prairie, Plano, Frisco, Garland, Richardson, McKinney, Carrollton and the surrounding metroplex.
If the piece will carry part of a building it is not fabrication but structural welding, and a licensed engineer specifies it first. For everything else, full service detail is on the fabrication page, and pricing is explained in our DFW welding cost guide.
Yes. A sketch on paper, rough dimensions, a photo of the space and a picture of something similar is plenty. What is not enough is a description with no dimensions and no photo — nobody can quote that honestly.
Mild and structural steel is the bulk of it, plus stainless and aluminium where the job calls for it. Note that aluminium and stainless need gas-shielded processes, so on site they need shelter from wind — in an open yard on a windy day the part is better brought in.
The steelwork is usually the fast part. Lead time is driven by material availability and, more often, by finishing — powder coating and hot-dip galvanising happen off site and add days. If you have a deadline, say so at quote stage.
Yes. Once the first is proven, repeat runs are straightforward and cheaper per piece because the design work and any jig already exist. Say up front if a repeat run is likely, so the first one is built with that in mind.
Either. CAD or a dimensioned drawing removes ambiguity and speeds things up, but a clear hand sketch with dimensions and a photo of the location works perfectly well for most one-off parts.
Rough dimensions, a photo of the space and a picture of the style you want is enough to get a real quote.