Thursday, January 27, 2011

Replica Motorcycle Parts

I was asked to fabricate some replica lamps for a vintage motorcycle. The client had the spun parts done elsewhere, and I worked on custom springs, clips, soldering rings, and machining all slots/holes in various parts. Here are some of the parts in production along with their originals....




Monday, January 24, 2011

Harvard Graduate School of Design January Term

We had a great group of students from the GSD for a class called Architectural Metalwork. We reviewed and practiced welding (mig, tig, and oxy/acetylene), soldering and brazing, cutting, drilling, bending, and design/engineering with various metals. Projects built by students included a slick modern coat rack, a torqued geometric shape chair frame, a few different dual purpose side tables, custom bike parts, a mod exo-frame pivoting lamp...







Display Stands

These are a few of many display stands we made for an architect's models. They were eventually powdercoated with a gloss clear.


Saturday, January 1, 2011

Announcing The Workbench Annex


Our workshops have developed into an official side project called The Workbench Annex. We are offering more than metalwork instruction! We are also looking for folks interested in teaching in a nice large flexible 3000 space that is also a metal shop. See flyer below, or click on link for webpage: www.magma-metalworks.com/workshops.php