Tool Loans
Tool Loans is a great resource for students looking to do some extra work on their own time. In addition to standard power and hand tools like cordless drills, hammers, pliers, and wrenches, etc.
Current students, faculty, and staff
The shops and studios offer access to students who have been properly trained and demonstrate competence, technical skill and an understanding of relevant health and safety issues.
Our shop has all the materials and equipment you need for metal fabrication, including:
- hot and cold bending, tube bending.
- cutting (abrasive saw, cold saw, band saw, plasma cutter, oxy/acetylene).
- sand blasting and surface finishing.
- welding (tig, mig, stick, spot, oxy/acetylene).
- machining and drilling;
- and you can buy all the materials you need in-shop (plate and sheet steel, angle iron, bar and tube)
Our shop has all the equipment and materials you need for plastic fabrication:
- cutting (table saw, band saws liquid cooled and dry cut, chop saw)
- abrasive shaping (dry and wet belt sanding, spindle sanding)
- machining (milling machine, lathes, drill press, routing)
- vacuum forming, heat forming and bending
- buffing/polishing and casting (acrylic, resins and liquid plastics);
- and you can buy materials directly in our shop (sheet materials, casting and rod/bar)
We offer you access to digital fabrication services at accessible prices! Our technical staff can help you with file manipulation, post-processing and finishing suggestions for your project! We offer lots of services like:
- FDM 3D printing, SLA 3D printing and SLS 3D printing
- laser cutting and engraving
- CNC milling, 3D scanning and waterjet cutting
Our jewellery studio has all the materials and equipment you need for jewellery and metalsmithing. In our shop you’ll do:
- metal casting and fabrication, hot and cold joining and forging techniques.
- forming (including forging, smithing, hydraulic press and bending break).
- soldering, filing, emerying (belt sander), drilling (drill press and flex shaft).
- stone setting and 3D printing in castable wax resin.
- polishing, riveting, surface finishing, machining (unimat, sherline, lathe);
- and you can buy materials like drill bits, saw blades, and silver in-studio