Showing posts with label Metal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metal. Show all posts

[MAKING] METAL WORK

I thought of making a tray (like a petri dish) or a coaster, using the notcher and box bender, but apparently that was too simple. So I decided to make a mini metal chair. It was all going pretty well, metal was cut according to the plan, with four legs, backrest and all. I planned to fold down the legs by hand. But then one snapped off. Since each were only 0.5cm or so wide, they were rather flimsy and certainly weaker than I anticipated. Another mistake, another lesson. But the problem was I no longer had a chair...
So I finish the session with no real outcome, but I did try some other machines such as the polisher. The first piece is an untouched, scratched surface. The second, after undergoing the polishing procedure, was much shinier, given an even mirror finish. Nice.

Note: the metal gets pretty hot. Gloves are necessary and touching should not be immediately after polishing.


[MAKING] METAL TOOLS



I thought all the woodwork was 'new' to me, but metalwork is something else! Never worked with it before, never heard of these tools before. And of course we had to make something with it this afternoon. Didn't quite turn out great...