Metal forming

Watch how to use a doming block to form gentle curves, bowl shapes or deep half round domes in sheet metal for your handmade jewellery designs

Robert Dancik, artist, inventor and instructor, holds a Masters degree in sculpture from Northern Illinois University, and a BA in fine art from Adelphi University. He has been an artist/teacher for more than 30 years and is presently an adjunct professor of education at Pace University. Robert has taught people from k

A hydraulic press is used to form and shape sheet metal with a very strong compressive force. It's great for production work to create a shape over and over and it keeps your pattern from being distorted while doming the...

On Saturday 23rd June Georgina Franklin and I taught a press forming workshop. We were joined by a lovely group of ladies, who have all been to classes

Lanny Bergner is a mixed media sculptor who uses stainless steel mesh to create vessels and art and torches to create color on his pieces.

Impression Dies Bronze and Steel Vintage for Jewelry Making Forming Metal or Clay Careful in using in a hydraulic press due to possible breakage. Best to use a hammer to make an impression in your metal

Since the earliest civilizations, the leaf shape has been an inspiration for jewelry. Here is a step by step tutorial of how to make a forged leaf brooch.

Wato wato I thought this example of a commission I have received will help to better understand the chasing and repousse methods I use. Better still I sincerely hope it will encourage you to…

Learn a new medium — embossing on metal foil tape — using minimal investment in tools and supplies. Create GORGEOUS metallic tiles with super cool grungy, antiqued look.

Inspired by animalistic forms both living and extinct, artist Mylinh Nguyen welds alien creatures from brass, bronze, and silver. Using a variety of machining techniques each creature takes form over several weeks, originating first as haphazard sketches in a notebook before evolving into permanent metal forms. Nguyen is a master of articulating even the most minute skeletal details of imaginary beings with metal, such as her seed-pod-meets-jellyfish series Meduses or her 2012 series of…