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This course gives you an understanding of the many useful metalworking machines and processes available in a metalworking studio.

The aim is to get you confident and handy, able to design and fabricate useful artworks or objects, structures in metal in the LSW shop or your studio/shed. Starting with some fundamentals on the first morning exploring a wide range of tools, processes and method available in the workshop through making, onto a second day of personal projects with professional advice and guidance from an experienced tutor. For beginners there is a project available, but also useful professional advice and insight for creatives with their own project ideas.
What Will I Learn
An intense introduction to different metals, identification, properties, uses, shapes…
Specialist metalworking tools, for marking and measuring,
Drill bill 101, picking out and using the right cutting bits for best results.
Hand tools for metal, snips, punches, rivets and riveters, electric hand tools.
Making threads with taps and dies.
How to read a drawing, mark, measure, cut, fold and fix a sheet metal project.
Correct and safe operation of machine shop tools; Bench/pillar drills, finisher grinder, shears, guillotine, notcher, box and pan folder, bandsaw, bar bender, slip rolls…
Mig welder, spot welder and plasma cutter.

What will I do
Participants will get hands-on with a wide range of metalworkers, engineers tools, handle different metals, fixings and cutting tools.
You will make some sample riveted and welded joins.
Follow through a sheet metal project to mark, cut and fold your own metal box form using the machine shop.
Use the Mig and spot welders.

The second day will allow you time explore tools and materials for your own project as well opportunity to try out many other tools and processes.

Open to all levels, including beginners

Metal Fabrication Course for Artists and Designers

Kim Willis

This 3-hour welding class in London will teach you the basic skills of mig and arc welding.

This class will absolutely fly by but the knowledge you learn will stay with you forever. You get a chance to get extremely hands-on, with scrap metal so there is no need to be precious and under the supervision and guidance of a professional.

The basics of mig and arc welding are essential skills for if you want to carry on metal work. The skills of metal welding can be used in all sorts of art and used on different types of materials. It's an essential skill for any avid sculpture artists, although it can be dangerous. It is always best to learn these things with the help of a professional. You are not only taught the skill, but the essential safety information which you will practice all throughout your welding career.

Taught in the amazing London Sculpture Workshop on the banks of the river Thames, these classes fill up incredibly fast, so book in advance to avoid any dissapointment.

Introductory Welding Class for Artists

Rik Bennett

Metal fabrication technique can be complex to the untrained eye. Fortunately with our help you can master it. Our courses and workshops specialising in metal fabrication techniques can turn a beginner into an accomplished user in the blink of an eye.

Top 10 Best Metal Fabrication classes, courses, learnings kits and gifts in the UK 

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Top 10 Best Metal Fabrication classes, courses, learnings kits and gifts in the UK

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