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What is Cold Work Steel and what's the use of it?
Sachin Steel Enterprises provides cold work steel services. Cold work steel is used in many cold-work components in vehicles such as aircraft, automobiles and ships, etc.
cold-work steel, also known as cold-work tool steel, is a type of tool steel specifically designed to be used in cold-working applications. Cold working refers to the deformation of a material at temperatures below its recrystallization point, often at room temperature or slightly elevated temperatures. Cold work steel is employed in processes such as cutting, forming, and shaping metals and other materials without the need for high temperatures.
Here are some common uses of cold work steel:
- Cutting Tools: Cold work steel is frequently used to manufacture cutting tools such as knives, shears, and blades.
- Dies and Molds: Cold work steel is employed in the production of dies and molds used in metal forming and shaping processes.
- Punches and Stamps: Cold work steel is used in the fabrication of punches and stamps for punching, stamping, and blanking operations.
- Cold Extrusion Tools: In cold extrusion processes, where materials are shaped by compressive forces at room temperature, cold work steel is utilized for the dies and tools to ensure durability and dimensional accuracy.
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Art in the framed age of surveillance where mass media manufactures consent and we live our digital lives consuming content.
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Lathe Riders, Secrets from the Cold Shop - at the Glass Art Society Virtual 2021 Conference
Lathe Riders, Secrets from the Cold Shop – at the Glass Art Society Virtual 2021 Conference
Lathe Riders will present Secrets Techniques from the Cold Shop in a live Lecmo at this year’s Glass Art Society Virtual 2021 Conference. Lathe Riders is an international collaboration of cold workers specifically focussing on their Cold Shop Studio and Cold Working Techniques. The presenters are all professional cold workers each with decades of experience. Their presentations will share their…
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Sometimes it’s just purely invigorating to do something completely new. Well, new in the sense that I’ve made it to a hotshop to develop a brand new line of work I’ve been dreaming of for years.
Thanks to Smelt Glass Studio, which recently moved to Victoria Yards in Johannesburg, these dreams are becoming reality. Like many big city glass communities, such as in the USA, we have slowly been growing into a collaborative clique of glass makers, artists and artisans.
Don’t get me wrong, we are only a handful of diehard believers in the power of glass.
This medium presents so many challenges. Over and above the technical aspects – specialised tools, skill sets honed over years and decades, and the diversity of the medium itself – there is the market.
The South African demand for “glass art” is relatively small. Its fragile nature, overall expense compared to other types of sculpture or two dimensional works and small group of appreciators makes for a difficult market. But years of tenacious participation in the local art scene are bearing fruit.
Africa has few glass blowing studios and even fewer cold shops. I can’t speak for beads/flamework and kilnwork, but would wager that the latter has a considerable following due to the tooling (kilns, etc.) being closely related to ceramics and availability of compatible materials such as Bulls Eye Glass locally.
I am specifically speaking about the professional fine art space here, where narrative and creative vernacular is represented within an art gallery environment.
There are two institutions in South Africa that offer degree courses in glass – Tshwane University of Technology and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
Guateng has a vibrant glass scene. TUT in Pretoria offers glass as a full time graduate course and has been going since 1994 (when David Reade helped to build our first furnace and I got sucked into this vitreous world…). This is where I was bitten by the “glass bug” and haven’t looked back since.
On the contrary, I see much potential for the future of glass in SA and beyond.
With such a small market segment competition is limited. Everybody knows everybody and many circles cross over to others.
Unfortunately the economic climate post 2008 has placed strain on the momentum of development. This stymies growth but also innovation as “taking risks” is too risky on our rickety boat.
I got an idea!
BYS
Pretoria Art Museum
Desperate times… as they say. In 2014 Blow Your Sculpture popped onto the Pretoria art scene. Inspired by the collaborative nature of Cool Capital’s first iteration, Blow Your Sculpture aimed at crossing the divide between sculpture and the perceived “craftiness” of glass. Local sculptors, artists and designers were invited to produce a plaster mould in which glass was blown.
Blow Your Sculpture launches it’s third wave of a contemporary glass narrative this May, culminating with an exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum in March/April 2019.
With so many irons in the fire and deadlines looming its time to get back to the studio…
Upcoming events:
04 May 2018: Assumption at Trent Gallery, Pretoria – Inspired by Craig Muller, Curated by Anna Liebenberg
12 May 2018: Blow Your Sculpture at Smelt Glass Studio, Victoria Yards, Johannesburg
Spirit of Adventure - Looking at #SouthAfricanGlass Sometimes it’s just purely invigorating to do something completely new. Well, new in the sense that I’ve made it to a hotshop to develop a brand new line of work I’ve been dreaming of for years.
Process - Musing on the act of creating
...the act of #sculpting, to #carve, #shape and #mould something of meaning from the seemingly mundane - an act of #creation. #Process & #Making
Where does one start? A blank sheet of paper? It is often romanticised how the sculptor “sees” his or her work within the stone; the wood, and in my case, the glass before starting. The Afrikaans word for sculptor is ”beeldhouer”, literary meaning “honer of an image”. Words have their own strengths and history – which proposes a theme for later lamenting and research… Back to the act of…
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Process - Musing on the act of creating
Process – Musing on the act of creating
Where does one start? A blank sheet of paper?
It is often romanticised how the sculptor “sees” his or her work within the stone; the wood, and in my case, the glass before starting. The Afrikaans word for sculptor is ”beeldhouer”, literary meaning “honer of an image”.
Words have their own strengths and history – which proposes a theme for later lamenting and research…
Back to the act of…
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