My Top 5 Favorite Metalworking Tools in my Art Studio – Kevin Caron

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Highlights in This Video:
00:00 Introduction
00:10 Everlast Lightning MTS 275 welder
00:48 Ellis Horizontal Mitre Bandsaw
01:14 DynaTorch CNC Plasma Table
01:35 Dayton 52" Slip Roll
02:15 Magic Lift Table Workbench

From http://www.kevincaron.com - Artist Kevin Caron shares which tools are his favorites of all the ones he uses to create his metal sculptures ....

INTRODUCTION
A viewer wanted to which are Kevin Caron's top 5 most favorite pieces of equipment.

EVERLAST LIGHTNING MTS 275 WELDER
As for welders - and Kevin Caron does a lot of welding - his favorite welder has to be the Everlast Lightning MTS 275. "MTS" means "MIG, TIG, stick," so this welder has 3 different functions. You can weld heavy metal, light metal, you can TIG weld, MIG weld and stick weld. It's just an amazing machine.

ELLIS HORIZONTAL MITRE BANDSAW
Before you ever even think about welding any metal together, though, you have to cut it to size. Nine times out of 10, Kevin Caron uses the Ellis 1800 horizontal miter bandsaw. It's a monster machine, with a lot of throat room so you can get a lots of metal in it. It's quick; it's quiet. It's so straight, smooth and precise - just amazing. A really, really nice bandsaw.

DYNATORCH CNC PLASMA TABLE
For cutting more complex shapes, especially when trying to take a piece of flat steel and make something dimensional, Kevin Caron turns to his DynaTorch CNC plasma cutout table. It has a big plasma torch with the plasma cutter in the toolbox, and it's all computer controlled. You create your designs on the computer in the office, then hand it off to the table. "Zip! Zip! Zip!" The CNC machine cuts out your shapes nice, neat and clean. Asks Kevin Caron: "Why did I ever wait so long to buy one?"

DAYTON 52" SLIP ROLL
Sometimes you want to shape something. You want a curve, a spiral, a different shape. By taking a flat piece of steel, you can use a slip roll to make twists, turns, spirals, circles. A slip roll gives you that creative freedom, if you will, while having a machine to do all the hard work for you. You just have to crank the handle.

MAGIC LIFT TABLE WORKBENCH
Of course, you've got to have someplace to work! Kevin Caron has a fixed height workbench where he does some welding, but when the sculptures get really big, it's nice to have a table that comes to you. He shows his hydraulic lift table, left over from the days when his studio was an automotive garage. It still is a functioning automotive garage. But the big chrome cylinder that the piece of steel plate is sitting on was part of an in-ground car lift like you see in old gas stations with four big arms on it. You'd drive your car over it, move the arms out, and pick up the whole car. Well, he didn't need that - it was just something to trip over.

Kevin Caron got rid of the mechanism and put a piece of 10' by 5' by 1-1/4" steel plate on the cylinder. Now he has a workbench plenty big enough and flat that goes all the way to the floor and 6' in the air. If Kevin Caron is working on something tall, he can always put his welder up on the lift table. Or he can get up on the table so he can work on sculptures that are 10, 12 feet tall.

Or Kevin Caron can put the sculpture on the table, pick it up, and work on it at whatever height he wants. It's easier on your back, easier on your neck. You're not hunched over, looking down all the time. And this way you can get whatever you're working on up to whatever height you want. It's been a great addition in the shop. Kevin Caron doesn't know how people work without one!

Thanks for watching. Kevin hopes you enjoyed this video and encourages you to leave your comments below about your own favorite tools. Please give this video a "like," and Kevin Caron will see you next time. Before you go see more free videos and Kevin Caron's wild work at http://www.kevincaron.com, stick around for a moment to see Kevin really take off ....

Artist Kevin Caron has been sculpting full time since 2006. See - and hear - his amazing metal and large format 3D-printed sculptures, which are found in public and private places coast-to-coast and online at http://www.kevincaron.com.

"Inspired sculpture for public & private places."

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