Metal-Shaping Seminars

Learning Objective: At the conclusion of this lesson, participants will be able to:
Produce comprehensive templates and patterns as a basis for replicating complex shapes.
Define and recognise different shapes and their variations.
Perform multiple manual shrinking and stretching techniques and locate their application.

Learning Objective: At the conclusion of this lesson, participants will be able to:
Assess complex projects and analyse their components.
Plan the order of operations to be conducted within a component.
Produce a component utilising bucks to reference shape.
Demonstrate the ability to create bulbous and return shapes through blocking on tree stump and sandbag.
Use wheeling machine to planish and to create transitions.

Learning Objective: At the conclusion of this lesson, participants will be able to:
Perform basic metal finishing operations.
Use blocking techniques to create decorative shapes, repoussé work
Produce low crown shapes on wheeling machine.

Learning Objective: At the conclusion of this lesson, participants will be able to:
Perform gas welds on steel.
Identify the differences in gas-welding ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
Define the mechanism of heat distortion and how to reverse it.
Demonstrate the process of edge wiring.
Present fundamental knowledge in metal finishing post welding.

Learning Objective: At the conclusion of this lesson, participants will be able to:
Use a Pullmax and bead roller to swage components.
Produce swages by using hand-tools.
Recognise and perform the technique of (hammer-) drawing.
Describe the process of annealing in different metals.