Friday, September 24, 2010

First Intro to Welded Sculpture Class

Last night was the first of five evenings on welded sculpture at the Crucible.  The class looks good so far - very laid back, friendly teacher, and lots of time to experiment and try different techniques and work on a project.

It looks like the project will be more free form than the blacksmithing classes - we're going to have to come up with our own ideas - which has pluses and minuses.

The class started off with a review of the safety stuff, and a quick tour of the Crucible building.  Then it got down to a few demos of arc welding and torch cutting.  After that, we got to practice bead running (and the all important learning to scratch light the stick!) and then to connect a few pieces of random scrap with tack welds.

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