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Pacific NW Sculptors and Clackamas Community College of Oregon City, OR occasionally join forces and present one or two day
seminars on the metal arts. Demonstrations and hands on workshops include forge work and welding of all types as well as lectures and presentations by
some of the Northwest's finest metal sculptors. The state of the arts Metal Arts shop at Clackamas Community College is the largest of its kind on the West Coast. |
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Tim Tanner lectures on the basics of electro-welding as well as his process of creating metal sculpture from household metal objects such as waffle irons, teapots, faucets and the occasional horseshoe. See Tim Tanner on the gallery page for a sample of his work. |
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Welding |
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The finished piece. Note the typewriter in the back about to meet it's doom. |
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Rick Gregg using the Oxy-Acetylene method to build up a sculpture from welding rod and sheet steel. |
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Heating with a hand-crank coal-burning forge |
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Shaping |
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Heating |
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Shaping |
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Dual Burner forge |
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Heating |
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Demonstrating a trip hammer named Lil' Abner constructed by Bert Romans |
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Bert demonstrating the use of Lil' Abner. |
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Rick Gregg using a forge of his own design |
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Shaping |
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Demonstrating a rolling mill |
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Devin Field-Lawrence making a paper template |
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Which is transfered to a piece of sheet steel and cut out. The quick way to cut sheet steel is with a plasma cutter like the one in use here. |
The steel piece can then be shaping using a trip hammer or a rolling mill. |
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The finished piece can then be welded to the frame. |
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Pacific Northwest Sculptors 4110 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. #302, Portland, Or. 97214 |
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