This is my first piece working with sheet metal that I started at my local community college. I am going to attach this to a horse body using the same methods. it mostly hammered cold with some hot working around the face.

I just joined the site after learning about it in the September issue of Art Calender. I design jewelry that incorporates metal clay (fine silver), wire, and sheet metals. I am a certified metal clay instructor; and, I teach primarily in North Carolina.

I seem to often reverse the correct description of hot rolled sheet metal vs cold rolled sheet metal.
When I cut out my components with a plasma cutter a heat pattern develops creating ribbons of colors along the cut line. Is that metal hot or cold rolled?

Hi everyone,

Soooo very glad I found your site!

I am doing a wall sculpture for an entry to the "Brainstorms" exhibit put on by the Epilepsy Foundation. It is a combination of hammered sheetmetal, copper mesh and sheeting, and heat formed plexi. I have 2 questions: