Metalworking

Metalworking is the shaping of metals to create single parts, assemblies, or large scale buildings/objects. There are many ways of shaping metal, including machining, metalspinning, forging, casting, goldsmith and fabricating. Humans have been working metal for close to 7000 years.

A man metalworking.

Metalworking Media

• Le Marteleur Meunier.jpg

  Le Marteleur by Constantin Meunier (1886)

• WomanFactory1940s.jpg

  A turret-lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, in the 1940s

• A combination square used for transferring designs

• A caliper is used to precisely measure a short length.

• SandMoldCopeDragCores.jpg

  Cope & drag (top and bottom halves of a sand mold), with cores in place on the drag. Results:

• SandMoldBronzeAluminium.jpg
• Drop forging Gesenkschmieden.jpg

  A red-hot metal workpiece is inserted into a forging press.

• Metal spinning brass vase.jpg

  Metalspinningbrassvase

• Cnc plasma cutting.jpg

  A CNC plasma cutting machine

• Angle Grinder cutting a steel chain - Video.webm

  Large amounts of potentially harmful particulates (metal dust) are being generated when an angle grinder is used to cut a steel chain.)