Jewelry/Metals Facilities

Students in the Jewelry/Metals program are provided with individual tool kits, benches, and storage. The main work room is stocked with bandsaws, milling machines, and other equipment. The program also provides a casting room, grinding room, annealing room, welding room, acid room, finishing room, lapidary room, ample studio space, and more.

Facilities details

Undergraduate & graduate studios with:

Tool cabinets
Anvils
Rolling mills

12’ x 12’ Graduate installation room

Main work room with:

Hammer/stake cabinet
3 Anvils
2 Rolling mills
3 Vises
Drawbench
Wood bandsaw
Metal bandsaw
Power hacksaw
Machine lathe
Spinning lathe
Vertical milling machine
Large drill press

Casting room with:

Centrifugal casting machine
Vacuum investing/casting machine
Crucible furnace
Electric kiln
Gas kiln
Steam cleaner
Wax injector
Vulcanizer

Grinding/Abrasives room with:

Pedestal grinder
12” Disk sander
2 Horizontal belt sanders
Strip sander
Bead blaster
Sand blaster

Metal cutting and forming area with:

Plate shear
Bench shear
Large and small bending brake
Slip roller
2 Hydraulic presses
Rotary combination machine

Annealing room with:

3 Gas/air annealing torches
Large cold pickle
Pitch working area

Forge/welding room with:

Oxyacetylene torch
Tig welder
Anvil
2 Vises
Large swage block
Gas slot forge

Acid room with:

2 Chemistry lab hoods
Spray etcher
Anodizing and plating equipment

Electroforming room with 2 copper electroforming baths

Enameling room with:

2 Kilns
8’ Sink
Drying box
Complete set of non-lead enamels

Finishing room with:

2 Dual buffing machines
Scratch brush machine
3 Tumblers

Lapidary room with:

Lapidary machine with slab saw
6” Wet belt sander
2 Flat grinding wheels

Light equipment room with:

Dumore drill press
Sherline mini-mill
Hoke torch
Anvil

Photo room for small to medium sized work

Critique/slide presentation room

Tool crib

Storage facilities

Soldering stations in all bench rooms with Presto-lite torches