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ABOUT US
Giant Globes Inc. is the brainchild of Matt Binns, an Englishman who
suitably has roamed the planet before making his home in Chicago some 15
years ago. For his resume CLICK HERE
 We
have been perfecting methods of bending sheet aluminum for the past
seven years, using techniques from the 19th century as well
as from modern metallurgy. As there was no way to use existing mapping
software to create continents that would give the correct shape when
bent into a smooth compound curve, we made our own. The Binns Projection
(sorry we can’t show you, it’s a trade secret) is the world’s only truly
representative projection, in that it actually does accurately represent
the continent’s size and shape when bent around a globe. That said, our
globes are not intended for navigational purposes!
Using
only the highest quality aluminum alloys (3003 for the continents and
6061-T6 for the meridians) we bend all the continents and latitude and
longitude lines ourselves, weld, file and polish until our fingers
bleed, then do it all again.
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