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3D4M Shops + Studios

  • Hot glass demonstration
  • Hammers at CMA Building
  • Ceramics kiln being loaded

The 3D4M facilities are primarily located in the Ceramic and Metal Arts Building (CMA) for graduate classes and 3D4M majors. There is a ceramics and glass studio in the Art Building for lower-level undergraduate classes. 

    People

    Each area of 3D4M has an Instructional Technician who works with faculty and students:

    Equipment

    A wide variety of equipment is available to students enrolled in 3D4M classes at the CMA:

    Ceramics Equipment

    Gas Kilns

    • 1 – 55 cu. ft. Alpine updraft/burnout kiln
    • 1 – 20 cu. ft. Bailey soda kiln
    • 1 – 80 cu. ft. Blaauw kiln
    • 1 – 10 cu. ft. Raku kiln
    • 1 – 4.5 cu. ft. test gas kiln

    Electric kilns

    • 1 – 65 cu. ft. cone 6 kiln
    • 1 – 50 cu. ft. cone 6 kiln
    • 2 – Skutt KS-609 (cone 6; 0.6 cu. ft.)
    • 1 – Skutt KM-714 (cone 6; 1.4 cu. ft.)
    • 3 - Skutt KM-818 (cone 6; 2.3 cu. ft.)
    • 2 – Skutt KM-1027 (cone 6; 7 cu. ft.)
    • 2 – Skutt KM-1027-3 (cone 6; 6.4 cu. ft.)
    • 4 - Skutt KM-1227 (cone 5; 9.9 cu. ft.)
    • 1 – Skutt KM 1227 PK (cone 6; 9.9 cu. ft.)
    • 1 – Skutt KM-1231 PK (cone 6; 11.6 cu. ft.)
    • 2 – Skutt KM 1627 PK-3 LF (cone 1; 18.5 cu. ft.)
    • 1 – Shimpo Cone Art MX4227 (cone 6; 16.5 cu. ft.)

    Wheels

    • Brent and Shimpo

    Miscellaneous

    • 2 – slab rollers
    • 4 – hand extruders
    • 1 – Soldner clay mixer
    • 1 – walk-in spray booth
    • 1 – ball mill
    • 1 – 50-gallon Slip casting table
    • 1 – 30-gallon Slip reclaimer

    3D Ceramic Printer

    • 3D PotterBot 9 Pro

    Glass Equipment

    Kiln Forming

    • 2 – GL 24 Paragon kilns (Sentry controller)
    • Front-loading casting kiln 30 x 36 x 20" (GB4)
    • Skutt kiln 28 x 26" (GB4)
    • Clamshell fusing kiln 37 x 37 x 12" (GB4)
    • Clamshell fusing kiln 72 x 39 x 15" (GB1)
    • Bell kiln 37 x 37 x 12" (Partlow)

    Hot Glass

    • 600-pound electric furnace
    • 2 – 11-inch glory holes
    • Front-loading annealer 44 x 74 x 44" (Partlow)
    • Top-loading annealer 28 x 63 x 23" (Partlow)
    • Color pick-up oven
    • Pipe warmer
    • Pipe cooler

    Cold Shop

    • Spatzier cutting lathe
    • Assorted sintered, electroplated, and prepolish/polishing wheels
    • 14-inch diamond saw
    • 4 x 106" Somaca wet belt sander
    • Water-feed drill press/ Diamond core drill
    • Stienert 24-inch lap wheel
    • Polishing lathe with 12 x 3" felt cerium wheel and 12 x 2.5" Polpur MJ pumice wheel
    • Foredom Flex Shaft grinders
    • Alpha pneumatic water-fed angle grinder
    • Dotco pencil grinder
    • UV Lamp
    • Trinco 48 x 48" sandblaster with dust separator
    • Vacuum-bed exposure unit

    Sculpture Equipment

    Woodshop

    • SawStop 10-inch cabinet saw with outfeed table
    • Oliver 10-inch lathe
    • Oliver 18-inch planer
    • Rockwell 8-inch joiner
    • Powermatic 12-inch planer
    • Router table
    • Lauguna 18-inch bandsaw
    • Delta 12-inch bandsaw
    • Powermatic panel saw
    • 12-inch miter saw
    • Rockwell drill press
    • 6-inch oscillating edge sander
    • Oscillating spindle sander
    • 12-inch disc sander
    • Downdraft sanding table
    • Spray booth
    • 5 – dust collection units

    Metalshop

    • Miller 225 Millermatic
    • Lincoln 275 Precision TIG
    • Miller 255 Synchrowave TIG
    • Lincoln 125 Mig
    • Thermaldynamics 100 plasma cutter
    • 2 – Oxy-fuel acetylene torch rigs
    • 20-inch Powermatic bandsaw
    • Radial arm drill press
    • Beverly shear
    • Jump shear
    • Bench shear
    • Scotchman-powered shear/punch/angle shear
    • Wilton horizontal bandsaw
    • 14-inch abrasive chop saw
    • Ring roller
    • Di-Acro Bender IV
    • Hossfeld bender with hydraulic system
    • 6-foot pan break
    • 16-inch disc sander
    • 2-inch belt sander
    • Bench grinder
    • 50-pound Little Giant power hammer
    • Johnson Gas Company trench forge
    • Johnson Gas Company demonstration forge
    • 4 – anvils
    • Assorted forming stakes
    • English wheel
    • Lux-matic 13-inch gearhead lathe
    • Bilge 90 blast furnace (294lbs brass)
    • Bilge 12 blast furnace (42lbs brass)
    • Burnout kiln 18 x 18" with Swest Controller
    • Marco pressure pot sandblaster
    • Alpine burnout kiln

    Wax and Plaster Mold Room

    • Wax melter
    • Wax steam out table
    • Vented workspace
    • Plaster lathe

    Technology Equipment

    Computer Lab

    A small computer lab is available at the CMA. It has 24-hour access for enrolled students, and the computers have the same suite of software tools found in all School computing labs.

    • 3 Apple 27in iMac workstations
    • Scanner
    • Laser printer

    For Checkout

    • 1 – Canon EOS 5D Mark II
    • 1 – Nikon D70
    • 1 – Nikon FM3A
    • 2 – Apple MacBooks
    • 1 – Apple MacBook Air
    • 1 – Blackmagic Cinema Camera
    • 2 – Hitachi projectors
    • 2 – Aaxa portable projectors
    • 1 –Lighting kit
    • 1 - Tripod

    Equipment Responsibility

    Students are responsible for repair or replacement costs related to damage, theft, or loss of all equipment checked out. This includes digital cameras and digital video cameras. Please be careful with these devices so that they continue to be available for use.

    Other Facilities in the CMA

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