Question:
What’s one shop skill you wish you had learned sooner?
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Discussion
For me it’s measurement. It really helps to have a firm understanding of how accurate measurements are taken.
Hydraulic press for sure, and still want to learn how to use an English Wheel
There is a lot to the hydraulic press.
The English wheel seems like black magic to me!
I want to make a small hydraulic press with a jack for my small home studio. I haven’t looked into it for awhile. The way I learned was to form copper with dies I made using plexi sheet cut and layered between vulcanized rubber. It’s been many years. But it was something like this. My shop mates and I discovered the most astonishing forms. It was so fun.
Great ideas. Filed for later!
Despite being English, I have no idea what one of our wheels might do😳. Care to enlighten me🧐.
it’s a tool for making compound curved metal from flat sheets http://www.justinbaker.co.uk/
That looks very archaic, thank you🙏🏻. Maybe Aston Martin uses them for making their cars🤔? They are all hand built, in The UK.
Certainly takes a highly skilled craftsman. There are probably CNC machines that do this in a much more controlled way for today’s hand-craft deficient industrial designers 😅
I still want to learn to weld.