Metalsmithing/Jewelry Facilities and Equipment
3,800 square foot studio divided into 7 rooms
Beginning Room
- Work space for 16 students
- Patina area
- Soldering area
- Plate shear
- Small drill press
- Stakes, hammers, handtools
- Anvil
Advanced Room
- Workspace for 16 students
- Soldering area- gas/air torches, mini torch, acetylene torch with Smith handpiece and tips
- Anvil
- Aluminum anodizing bath, titanium anodizing
- Galvanic etching baths
- Uni-mat lathe
- Casting area
- Centrifugal casting machine
- Vacuum casting machine
- Two Burnout Ovens
- Oxy-gas torch
- Electo-Melt
Metalsmithing room
- Two rolling mills
- Gas fluxer
- Large smithing stakes
- Many specialized hammers and forming stakes
- Box bender
- Variety of Di-Arco sheet metal tools
- Metal spinning lathe
- Portable gas fired forge
- Basic blacksmithing equipment
Plating/electro-forming room
- Large Copper electro-forming tank
- Plating baths for silver, gold, nickel
Mill Room
- 5 computer workstations equipped with Matrix 3D software ( jewelry-specific CAD software)
- Revo 5 axis CNC milling machine
- Graver Mach AT – pneumatic engraving and stone setting machine
- Maker Bot 3-D printer
- Orion Micro Welder
Finishing room
- Hydraulic pressing
- Deep draw equipment
- Bead blaster
- Dual speed exhausted buffers
- Belt sanders
- Grinder
- Stake polishing machines
- Pressure pot for resin casting
Enameling facility
- Work space for twelve students
- Four kilns
On-site supply store (operated by the student Metalsmithing organization, Alpha Rho Gamma)
- Offers kits and materials specific to each metals course.
Modest library of books, exhibition catalogues and videos and a catalogue collection of 2,000 slides
Graduate student studios
- Individual studio spaces for 5 graduate students
