Category:Metal Shop

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Metal Shop
Welding table
Metal Shop
Building {{{building}}}
Lead Eden Attar
User email list members@artisansasylum.com
Tool Testers

Sign up here, or come to the shop on the first Wednesday night of the month

Hours Same as membership hours


Monthly Free Community Events

We host several free community events every month. These are free and open to all, no membership or experience needed. Please come out to learn, share skills, and build community with us!

Shop Events Calendar

This Google calendar should have all our free community events as well as classes. See our Google Calendar for the current schedule.

Shop Social & Skillswap

Are you new to metalworking, looking for ways to get familiar with the Artisan’s Asylum Metal Shop? Are you an experienced fabricator or an artist with techniques or ideas that you’d like to share? Attend our social night to swap skills, show off favorite projects, and find inspiration.

This event is free and open to the public. 5:30 to 8:30 pm on the first Thursday of every month. Demonstrations, if scheduled, focus on techniques and ideas that can be showcased in a group format. Testing of class ideas is welcome! Donations are accepted for materials and supplies, but are not required.

Stop by to learn, make things with metal, and participate in the Metal Shop Community.

This event is not a substitute for classes or tool training and testing. For safety reasons, instruction or prior experience is required for those who wish to weld, powder coat, operate the oxyacetylene torches, or use the plasma cutters.

Tool Testing Night

If you're interested in getting tool tested, come out to the shop on the first Wednesday night of the month between 6 and 8:30 pm. There's usually a tester or two available for all metal shop red tools.

While this is the primary way tool testing occurs in our shop, you can still sign up for a 1-1 tool test. Tool testing night is an additional option, not a substitute.

FAQ:

  • Is this event the only way to get tool tested in the metal shop?

No! This is the preferred way to get tested out in the metal shop, but not the only way--message the shop lead to set up a one-on-one time if this event doesn't work for you.

  • Is the metal shop distinct from the machine shop?

Yes! We in the metal shop are more the blacksmithing, welding, and thermal cutting types. The machine shop is higher precision, generally producing smaller pieces with tighter tolerances. Also machining is subtractive, where the metal shop can be additive (e.g. welding). The metal shop is also dirtier, and often louder :D

  • Can I get tested on _______ tool?

Maybe.
Formal tool testing is only for RED tools, and only for people who have enough experience to "test out of" an intro/101 class.
You are eligible for testing only if you have experience equivalent to at least having taken an introductory/101 class on that tool.
If you need instruction on a RED tool that has a class associated with it, then DO NOT come to Tool Testing Night expecting instruction--take the relevant class instead.
For RED tools lacking an associated class, you are responsible for acquiring the knowledge necessary to pass the tool test on your own, using the metal shop tool manual, Youtube, and/or informal instruction outside of a Tool Testing Night. Tool testing is NOT instruction.
By definition, there is no tool testing required on GREEN tools. We can still offer guidance and help on those tools, but there's no formal recordkeeping for them. Most Asylum metal shop 101 level classes (including TIG 101 and Metal Shop 101) include tool testing as part of the class.
We do NOT do tool testing on loud tools when the shop is busy, which it often is on Tool Testing Night. This includes angle grinders and abrasive shop saws.

  • Do I need to be there at 6pm sharp?

No! This is a drop-in thing. Feel free to show up anytime during the event, just not, like, as we're packing up to leave for the night, please.

Tool Testers

  • Eden Attar (she/her)
  • Scraps Sparcs (they/them)
  • Ethan Labowitz (he/they)

Tools

Tool Class Tool Tester(s)
Angle Grinders RED Tool Testing Night
Jet Horizontal Band Saw RED Tool Testing Night
Milwaukee 6232 Portable Band Saw RED Tool Testing Night
Wilton Horizontal Band Saw RED Tool Testing Night
Belt Sander RED Tool Testing Night
Bench_Grinders RED Tool Testing Night
Compact Bender GREEN N/A
Hydraulic Pipe Bender GREEN N/A
JD Squared Air Assisted Bender GREEN N/A
Pro Tools Tube Bender GREEN N/A
Roller Tube Bender GREEN N/A
Shop Made Benders GREEN N/A
Box and Pan Brake GREEN N/A
Buffing Machine RED Tool Testing Night
Abrasive Blade Metal Chop Saw RED Tool Testing Night
Carbide Blade Chop Saw (Metal Devil) RED Tool Testing Night
Cold Saw RED Tool Testing Night
Dake Drill Press RED Tool Testing Night
Flex Shaft Die Grinder RED Tool Testing Night
48-inch Jump Shear GREEN N/A
Atlas Plus Forge RED Tool Testing Night
Ironworker RED Tool Testing Night
ONYX Compressed Air Tools RED Tool Testing Night
Oxy-Acetylene Torches RED Tool Testing Night
Hand Held Plasma Cutter RED Tool Testing Night
Slip Roll GREEN N/A
Lencospot Mark II Welder RED Tool Testing Night
MIG Welders (Category) RED Tool Testing Night
Spot Welder Chicago 61206 GREEN N/A
TIG Welders (Category) RED Tool Testing Night
Foot Shear GREEN Tool Testing Night