Metals Lab
Equipment
Shop Equipment
- Vices and worktables
- Jewelry workbenches
- Drill presses
- Disk and belt sanders
- Bev, guillotine, straight sheers
- Scroll saw
- Flexshafts
- Numerous hand tools (files, pliers, saw frames, mandrels, etc.)
Casting
- Centrifugal casting station
- Vacuum casting station
- Casting supplies such as flasks, button formers, mixing bowls
- Wax injector and mold maker
- Programmable kilns
- Vacuum stations for investing
- Oxy Acetylene torch
Forming
- Stretching, raising, planishing and other specialized hammers
- Mushroom and T-steaks for forming
- Bracelet, neck, ring mandrels
- Dapping blocks
- Disk cutters
- Bonny Doon hydraulic press
Fabricating
- Soldering/annealing stations
- Air Natural gas torches
- Acetylene torches
- Micro torches
- Annealing pans
- Third hand, tripod, and other soldering tools
Polishing and Cleaning
- Steel shot tumblers
- Ultrasonic cleaner
- Ite Buffs m
Blacksmithing
- Gas forge
- Coal forge
- Leg vices
- Furriers and other blacksmithing anvils
- Swage blocks
- Hammers, tongs, brushes
Engraving / Etching
- Gravers
- Graver balls
- Chasing tools
- Chasing and repose bowls and pitch
- Acid etching table
Location
Art Building, 2.402
Hours
Spring 2013
Mon 6–9pm
Tues 12–2pm
Wed Closed
Thurs 6m–10pm
Fri 10am–3:30pm
Sat 1–4pm
Sun Closed
Who Can Use?
Graduate Students
Studio Art graduate students working in Sculpture + Extended Media have 24-hour access; other graduate students have access with permission
Undergraduate Students
Must be enrolled in a Metals course
Contact
Lab Phone
471–0918
