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