Hot Crafts Area
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Activities
The Hot Crafts Area is home to a great variety of different activities! The include the following:
Warden
Kevin M. is the Warden for the Hot Crafts Area (as of Feb 2022).
Committee Meetings
The hot crafts committee meetings, which are open to all members interested in the hot crafts area, are on the First Monday of every month.
Recent Meetings |
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Hot Crafts Committee Meeting - March 7th, 2022 |
Hot Crafts Committee Meeting - February 7th, 2022 |
Hot Crafts Committee Meeting - January 3rd, 2022 |
To-Do List
Jewelry & Metalsmithing
- Add receiver hitch mounts to bench and table for big vice, install vice on hitch mount
Stained Glass
Lampwork
- Make and wire sample beads to soft glass tubes (In progress)
Ceramics
General Use and Other Equipment
- Table
- Replace pulled out screws, use 1/4-20 thread inserts to improve durability (parts on hand)
- Add receiver hitch mount for big vice, install vice on hitch mount
- Sink
- Plumb up high volume faucet (Faucet on hand, may need fittings)
- Rigidly mount sink back to wall and feet into floor
Wiki/Documentation
- All ceramics area equipment (emphasis on basic process being documented)
- All jewelry bench equipment (bench tools and casting)
- All stained glass and slumping/fusing equipment/processes
Wishlist
Jewelry & Metalsmithing
- Soldering torch at bench
- dust collection/ventilation
- Under-bench pull-out trays as catch pans
- proper jewelry bench
- Wax injector
- Electric Furnace
Stained Glass
- T-Square w/ 1/4" bead for strip cutting
- hole/circle cutter
- Ring Saw
Lampwork
- Taller kiln
- Oxygen Concentrator/compressor setup (to eliminate the need to buy oxygen)
- Miniature Furnace and glory hole
Ceramics
- clay filter/trap/rinse area (not attached to sink)
- Schedule system
- extruder
General Use and Other Equipment
- Air hose for cleaning/drying work and to run a wax injector
Floorplan
Hot Crafts is one of areas/wards in Hive13, added during the buildout of our space in 2701SG. It can be found on the Floorplan between columns D4, E4, D5, and E5.