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"The symbols that we've been discussing really start to come alive once cut into metal."
"This flat piece of metal is going to get torqued over and over and over, repeatedly because when you got a tree standing on end and you're rotating it around it's like this."
"The final step in creating a Damascus knife is the etching, which makes the pattern bolder to the eye."
"Since the very first Time Team that we ever did about 12 years ago, every time there's been a problem to do with something metal coming up we've called for Jerry."
"This is what we're left with, not much to show for two days of hard work but pure iron nonetheless."
"What do you think of this t-shape compared to other metal takes on the style?"
"It's not an easy thing to work with, especially on thin metals."
"Welding done, now onto mounting brackets and reinforcement plates."
"Step bits... blast through sheet metal, these step bits are amazing."
"This laser cutter effortlessly blasts the metal surface with a laser resulting in perfect cutouts being produced."
"I think when you look at a lot of dresser objects maybe particularly the metalwork there is a sort of dynamism and energy to his designs which seemed to encapture the dynamism of the age."
"It's literally blowing craters in the metal. That is a lot of damage."
"Making chips on a metal lathe is extremely satisfying."
"I look forward to sharing with you how on Earth we cut these bloody teeth in, set them, and heat treat them; it's going to be fun."
"This is beautiful, all this is metal right here."
"I'm going to start with some quarter inch round bar."
"Metal is such a cool and unique medium."
"Celtic metalwork is finely wrought; the Celts made a real and lasting contribution to European culture."
"Soldering is the process of using a low temperature melting point alloy to join two higher temperature melting point metals."
"If you're the artistic type and you're making a cool big metal sculpture and you want to have splashes of gold in your project then this is where brazing's going to come in handy."
"...that's basically keying the underside up ready for some primers now on the bare metal..."
"Just as a quick tip before you stick them down on your metalwork, just clean the surface with a mineral type cleaner."
"It's metal, it's made to a high standard."
"Effective chip breaking is an integral facet of the metal working landscape, instrumental in a streamlined and efficient metalwork process."
"A pair of printed brackets with steel embedded inside them."
"The Tara brooch is probably the single greatest treasure in metalwork that survives in Ireland."
"The whole metal structure is immense."
"I just kind of check I go like this giving one swipe put it back and check I can feel this one I got years ago in the metal so hard that I know the flat files not really taking any material off it just kind of skids across it which is nice."
"...but you can stamp on any metal as long as it's not too hard where it will damage your stamps. For practice, I tend to stick with copper because it's nice and cheap."
"Yeah, these mag drills are just super awesome to have when you need to drill through thick metal."
"Metal loves heat to weld properly."
"And if you needed just one metal polish to do it all, these two products would be at the top of my list."
"Fiber lasers allow you to engrave directly onto metal."
"The biggest pro to a fiber laser is the fact that you can engrave metal. You can't do that on the others. You can actually engrave into metal."
"If you break everything down there's only five things that we can do to metal: we can shrink it, stretch it, cut it, bend it, and weld it."
"I concur, everyone agrees that frosted Metals look 10 times better in real life."
"There are other methods for marking metal and I'll cover that in another video."
"Direct the sparks in an area where there's minimal risk of causing a fire or any damage."
"The 9-inch grinder has made life a lot easier."
"Using the angle grinder, as mentioned earlier, I did find the tubing to be under tension so the blade was jamming up."
"Once the areas have been roughed in, you can finish up with a file."
"It's better to have two brackets and grind off a small amount of material at a time instead of cutting too much material off."
"There's a lot of metal work for this project which is my favorite part of any build."
"Every tack that you put in there, it's going to expand and it's going to shrink even tighter than it originally was."
"Direct metal laser sintering is an additive manufacturing technology that creates metal parts directly from 3D CAD data."
"It's a bit tricky to do, one of the nicest things about using 18 gauge metal is that all the hammer marks and everything, you could sand them out pretty well."
"These saws are also commonly referred to as cold cutting saws; they're not really a cold saw, but they do leave pretty much an instantly cool and burr-free edge."
"Once you etch it, it brings out that natural grain, and it's a very neat look."
"I love this thing; I'm looking forward to getting the laser spray today and kind of messing with metal some more."
"You can make awesome stuff out of metal using basic tools and without a lot of expensive equipment."
"Isn't that beautiful? Because it's metal art."
"We're ready to take some cuts in steel."
"It's very fun to use these. I used to love to cut with plasma in America."
"I love when I can find some embossed metal pieces at the local thrift store because they look absolutely stunning once you distress them down."
"It was surprisingly easy to make some intricate shapes out of metal that look cool."
"I'm blacksmithing! Blade crafting!"
"The quality then is very, very good, all of that metal work is very impressive indeed."
"I certainly like metal when it's red hot, when we're forging or forming it into something."
"The stainless steel Damascus slides are a little bit extra special right now."
"My preferred method is electrolysis, and the reason I like it is that it doesn't really etch or damage the base metal."
"I also like the finishing on this S30V blade; it has a gorgeous stonewashed face."
"I'm really pleased with that; I'm going to endeavor to get better as I continue on my metal polishing journey."
"Never underestimate the punch; it will give you the accuracy you want on the pieces of metal you need."
"That's full metal, it is a sheet metal of the Radiator Springs sign from Cars Land."
"Silver, not a luring metal that can bring out the worst and the best in men."
"Don't just hammer the wires flat or leave them square or round; forge them, make them much more exciting and pleasing to look at."
"The technique is called cold casting, where you use real metal with resin."
"You're doing so good now, forging it, good job."
"Looks like that one penetrated through two sheets of 16 gauge sheet metal, look at that, pretty impressive."
"I'm really looking forward to seeing it anodized."
"Metal shaping is entirely three things: shrink, stretch, and form."
"I love that the forging scene, the smithing, is so cool."
"This video was definitely worth its metal."
"The entire case is diecast metal."
"One of the great things about working with sheet metal is you can bend and move it to make it fit your needs."
"I'm very very impressed with this, okay, this is 24 gauge metal butt welding."
"A very symmetrically tapered tang, beautiful surface finish."
"Trust me, if you are into custom metal work, it is time well spent."
"It's not showing off, but I did do these all first time, didn't waste any copper."
"I'm imagining this is some sort of rougher metal, metal plating just kind of cobbled together."
"This thing makes some beautiful spot welds in 20 gauge steel."
"Be patient and take your time when you're cutting out spot-welds; the last thing you want to do is damage good metal you don't intend on replacing."
"It looks like a piece of aluminium bar and that's exactly what we're after."
"We teach basic blacksmithing classes, advanced blacksmithing classes."
"This is as beautiful a forging as you can get."
"Arc welding is one of the most common and versatile methods of joining metal."
"3D printing in metal with a robot."
"The ability to efficiently and consistently shrink is a game changer when it comes to shaping your panels."
"When we shrink sheet metal, we're actually making it thicker; contrast when we stretch metal, we're making it thinner."
"If we use a combination of shrinking and stretching to create that panel, we finish up with a product that's overall thicker and more durable in the end."
"It's a win-win and it's also a lot faster."
"You do have to be very careful when you're working on deep dents or stretched metal to avoid overstretching the panel."
"I love the detail on that, that grill is metal."
"Heat distortion is created by TIG welding on car body work; it can be rectified by planishing the welded area using a panel hammer and a dolly."
"You should learn how to work a panel out of arrangement, learn how to use a flexible shape pattern, learn how to use the English wheel, and you can make anything."
"It's a gorgeous, gorgeous ingot, nice and clean."
"Well, there you have it. You can actually achieve green with weld and iron."
"This is absolute artwork and metalwork."
"This mix has this gorgeous metal patina charm and I absolutely love it."
"Thank you," she said softly, holding the horn up to regard the beauty of the metalwork.
"We're going to make life a little bit easier when it comes to rolling and bending our sheet metal itself."
"One of the things that I love to do is mix metals."
"The 800 grit finish loses the milky appearance; objects close to the part will now show clear reflections."
"We literally have the freedom to use our imagination and to just take any sheet of metal, any block of metal, and make what we want out of it."
"There are only five things we can do to metal: shrink it, stretch it, cut it, bend it, and weld it."
"The process of plate rolling involves feeding a flat metal plate through a series of rollers that apply pressure to the material, causing it to bend and form into the desired shape."
"As long as you can touch the steel, it's not too hot."
"The key to feathering a bevel is light passes, always keeping your tool moving when it's in contact with the stone."
"First things first, get all the metal up on the Welding Table right here."
"This is a masterpiece of stamped metal manufacturing."
"There's metal everywhere, so you know, be creative and don't be afraid to use recycled metal."
"If I was going to be building a flanker now, this is the kit I would do because it looks absolutely gorgeous with all the metal work and the bits and pieces that you could do to this one as well."
"Let's fire up the forge and get to a quack."
"We're going to make a custom hand-forged handle just for this."
"It's got such wild curves and everything that I'm amazed you can even do that with metal."
"It's like working in a cheese grater because everything in here is like a bunch of sharp metal boxes just everywhere you look."
"Very high-quality metalwork. Really at the jewellery level, even in small details."
"Make sure that your metal is down to bright and shiny, there's no contaminants, no oil, and that it is clean."
"The copper plating, the moulding of that, is just superb."
"The whole idea behind Foundry Wax is... a foundry is a place where they melt down metal and create castings."
"Etching is a process that you can use to eat away or edge away certain parts of your metal while leaving other parts untouched."
"It's amazing. Just how shiny you can make what used to be just a run-of-the-mill piece of aluminium."
"Like and subscribe if you'd like to see a little bit of metal being glued together."
"I play the violin and the piano. I like making things out of scrap metal, like putting parts together and soldering it to make statues."
"When you look a little bit closer, you see this one has nice movement to it, all of the metal is very smooth."
"I prefer the look of raw aluminium finish, just natural."
"Every metal part of the stove is made using recycled metal."
"What I'm going to do is very gently work down the length of this material."
"The most straightforward and simplest dies you can make are a set of flat set dies just like these."
"It's the Moment of Truth. Metal's at temperature, everything's staged and ready to go. Let's see how it goes."
"I'm impressed that that looks 30 years old, that looks like brand new metal."
"This is the first of the sheet metal horse sculpture designs that I've done."
"Welding is the strongest way to join metals like steel."
"MIG welding is easy to learn and does not distort the metal but does need clean metal."
"Arc welding uses electricity to generate heat and fuse two pieces of steel together."
"Traditionally, the appropriate metal for the particular planet you're designing your talisman around should be used."
"A wealthy man's cross piece would be much more richly designed and he might even be able to afford metal work for the bands that hold it in place."
"Bends hold that shape which gives us that sense of it being, you know, metal which looks really good."
"Not long ago we did a casting test with some melted metal in our new foundry, and we got this fantastic knife."
"Who can hammer out beautiful patterns."
"The final cutting metal bevel is phenomenal, the finish on the blade, phenomenal."
"It really is beautiful watching how annealed metal will shrink around a corner and basically pile up the material inside itself to fit into a smaller space than it used to."
"Then aluminum, it's so fast I can cut an entire four-foot coil in like 25 or 30 seconds, super super fast."
"Especially whenever you're welding like thinner material, I think it's better to TIG weld it instead of MIG weld it because you can actually fuse metal together."
"I'm just gonna coat all this metal with WD-40."
"The body is all metal, it's really well made, and it has this stainless steel front which sort of goes carries right round the back as well."
"It was a new kind of metal tooth gear I came up with."
"You're seeing some artwork that's better on metal than on canvas."
"It's so cool how you can take a piece of foam and shape it and turn it into something like this with some molten metal."
"The benefits is that you can create completely new kinds of designs which isn't possible with conventional metal cutting today."
"Starting to see some shiny metal there, which is a good sign."
"I can't wait to start bending some iron in here."
"I like being able to turn some just random flat sheets bits of metal into something functional that resembles what it originally did from the factory."
"The possibilities on the ways you can reinforce sheet metal are as limitless as your imagination."
"Watch as we transform junk into polished metal miracles."
"I think we have the shaft turning done."
"Metal finishes do not hide imperfections; they amplify them."
"Welding produces a permanent joint; sometimes the strength of joint is also much better than the base metal itself."
"It especially represents what a talented team can do with metal."
"I can take a piece of metal and cut it up and make it look like something amazing."
"What I decided would be a lot more inspirational would be to make a metal sculpture that could hold its own unplugged and sitting on the shelf."
"Now you have complete control, you can have this be the melting metal."
"It is the first known example of sheet metal being used to create a functioning object rather than just a decorative object."
"It's a pleasure to work with brass."
"I spent probably a week's worth of time just sanding and polishing aluminum throughout this build."
"Imagine that you have a file in your hand and a block of metal... you wanted to round off these edges."
"With the sheet metal tools, we're going to be able to flatten this."
"That natural pitting is gonna add to the effect of this really old steel that we're gonna try to accomplish."
"Joining of metals is not just about bringing two pieces together; it's about understanding the fundamentals of the process."
"This is a really beautiful piece of artwork and metal."
"Whoever did the metal work on this car, I didn't do it, I'm going to go ahead and say he did a really good job."
"Bronze gives you a really nice dark color with a little bit of blues and greens in it, it's really pretty."
"There are skilled metal workers that can craft amazing things with metal."
"I love when they mix the metals in the One Ring."
"That's all we need to do with this true metal, brilliant stuff."
"These metal plates, they are pretty magical."
"It just gives it this gorgeous bronzed metal almost look to it."
"You have the metal base, and it's beautifully done; the details are definitely overlooked in most cases."
"It's a lot of fun to do this, I love doing galvanized aged metal, that's one of my favorite techniques to do."
"I love to see metal framing inside a house."
"He's like making this stuff out of random metal that is just around, and he forms it into intricate and awesome designs."