Custom Metal Oregon - Solid Form “Steels” the Gold Medal

Each year, Oregon Remodelers Association holds its Outstanding Remodeling Achievement Awards competition. Winners are judged in the areas of design, craftsmanship, and how well the remodelers filled the needs and wants of their clients.

Solid Form is proud to announce that this year we have been honored with receiving Oregon Remodelers Association's Outstanding Remodelers Achievement Award for Residential Exterior Specialty.

Feel free to take a brief photo tour of the project that afforded us the opportunity to earn this honor by clicking on the above photo.

Custom Metal Oregon - Solid Form at La Casa Verde "Green" Building Expo on Earth Day Weekend

Solid Form Fabrication invites you to visit us in our booth on April 24th at this year’s La Casa Verde festival “A Celebration of Building Green in McMinnville” to learn more about what makes metal an exceptionally "green" material.

The festival will be located within McMinnville’s charming Granary District in partnership with The Market (McMinnville’s Saturday Market) and Cellar Ridge Custom Homes and will feature approximately 20 green home industry specialists and a delicious chef’s choice harvest dinner (including wine tasting from local wineries) where local awards will be given out for members and entities within the community which support both green building and earth friendly activities.

Curious about what makes stainless steel a “green” material? Find out here.
Be sure to click on the “Stainless Steel The Green Material” PDF file at the bottom of the page.

Custom Metal - Steel handrails help make traditional style plank house ADA compliant

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are nearing completion on construction of a traditional cedar plank house being built near Uyxat Powwow Grounds in Grand Ronde. While we were honored to provide metal handrails, fire grates and door track, the impressive part of this building is the traditional construction using logs and cedar planks. The main structure is supported by massive 30” diameter logs, and the entire perimeter is wrapped with wide cedar planks. Eric Scott, tribal engineer, is proud of multiple design solutions that allowed the building to retain traditional design components like dirt floors, fire pits and native materials, while satisfying current engineering codes and providing ADA compliant access. Very cool building...check it out next time you're headed to the Oregon Coast.

Read more about it here....

( photo by zhafnium )

Custom Metal Oregon - Giving Back

Solid Form Participates in “Kids on the Block” Fundraiser (January 09, 2010)

This year Solid Form contributed our efforts, in collaboration with the design team at McMinnville-based Nectar Graphics, to benefit the “Kids on the Block,” a program that offers afterschool enrichment and recreation opportunities to 530 children across 6 elementary schools per day. The piece will be on display at the upcoming Mayor's Ball.

Custom Metal Oregon - Hammered Copper

The repetitive clink of ball peen hammers working large copper sheets echoes off every surface in the shop. With a hammer in each hand, the goal is to never hit the same place twice. Multiple passes are taken down the length of the sheet, each pass followed with a series of annealing and flattening.

Hammering copper is one of the oldest methods of humans forming metal. Copper tools and smelting operations have been found dating to 6500 B.C. The Pantheon, originally constructed in 27 B.C., had a copper roof covering the outer skin of the main dome, which remained in service up to the beginning of WWII. Being the first to use metal as a major architectural material, the Romans made sheets using sand castings and finished by hammered them to thin copper panels of various sizes. Copper has been recycled for thousands of years and has the highest recycling rate of any engineering material.

Each swing of the hammer develops a better understanding of the material, and seems to provoke the history contained in that piece of copper. How many lives has this copper previously experienced as a tool, a vessel, a piece of jewelry, or worshiped as a gift from the gods? I can’t help but wonder if one of my Italian ancestors, a few centuries ago, worked some small part of copper that makes up the spot that I just hammered.

Custom Metal Oregon - And the Door Prize Winner is...

...Urbanbliss Luxury Salon



Congratulations!

Custom Metal Oregon - Alloro Vineyards Estate

we're wrapping up work on a private residence for the Alloro Vineyards and Winery estate. This project featured a copper awning, copper chimney cap, floating stainless steel shelves in the kitchen, iron railing and gate, a Romeo and Juliet balcony and some other small trim pieces and structural components.