Bill Gibson's Personal Profile
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billsmetal |
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Wed, Aug 11th 2004 - 9:17PM |
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Burtonsville,
Maryland,
United States
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Fri, Oct 1st 2004 - 10:30PM |
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billsmetal.com |
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Introduction: I was born into metal fabricating. My Dad was a welder/ fabricator in the aerospace industry. He had a shop at home as well, so I was tig welding when I was nine years old. During my school years I used the shop to make money working on old cars and fixing lawn and farm equipment, making a lot of parts from scratch. After graduation I got a job doing duct work for a hvac company. After three years of that someone told me I should get a government job. So I ended up in the National Park Service Metal shops. Where I got to work on every thing you can imagine, like bronze statues, aluminum flag poles, standing seam roofs, breaching on ships. making stainless counters and furniture. restoring antique lamps, making reproduction parts for almost anything that needed to be preserved or restored, like civil war cannons, and of course sometimes the mundane like fixing the gutters or the toilet partitions..yuk. I worked there 34 years and retired june 2007. I supervised welders, sheet metal workers, machinists, metal fabricators, locksmiths, and lawn mower mechanics. One word about becoming a supervisor, if you are a good craftsman.... DON'T. I now run my own business full time. Bills Metal Design and Fabrication was started as a part time bussiness in 1984. Check out the link to the web site. www.billsmetal.com I do a bit of metal shaping, mostly by hand and on the english wheel. But I'm building more machines to help speed up work. And I'm staying busy and loving it.
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