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With the fortune of the steel donation comes the challenge of working with an unfamiliar material. :

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Serendipitously, four of our six members are in Gil Snyder and Frankie Flood's Fabrication Methodologies class this semester. So, we visited Peck School of the Arts sculpture and metals lab to see what we can (and can't) do with our cache of material.
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Yet another gift of generosity was found in Frankie, who readily offered us assistance with the project.

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Eager to get started, we tested the feasibilty of our idea to slice the steel members into rings. The thickest piece took prohibitively long to cut and the bend in the blade made straight cuts difficult, if not impossible. Also, all cuts require sanding to smooth hazardous burrs. Small components may require too much time. But large components made of steel may be too heavy. Hm...

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A quick stop in the metals lab filled out our list of potential processes available at the arts school. Anvils, anyone?