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The nostalgic wall art in your bedroom, your family’s kitchenware, your sibling’s newly-bought automotive components, and the engraved wedding ring in your grandparent’s memory box—they all root in the thoughtful act of metalwork. In this process, metals are transformed into purposeful items, may they be timeless ornaments, trusty task companions, or essential parts of a functioning object. 

Metalwork is vast, but the bottom line is it requires full focus to perform. Since it involves working with materials that have different characteristics—like iron, copper, and aluminium—and techniques, it’s important to be equipped with the knowledge, bravery, stamina, and dexterity to achieve the target result, while also staying safe. Instead of settling for available but mediocre products, why don’t you try hiring a Tasker for a fulfilling experience on customisation and personalisation?

To deepen your understanding of metalwork before booking a Tasker, check out these common metalwork methods:

Forging

If you see someone reshaping hot metal by pressing, rolling, or hitting it against an anvil, that’s forging. A few of things that come out of this operation are beams utilised in big infrastructures, swords, aircraft components, sculptures, and even jewellery. Forging also improves an object’s toughness and grain structure, plus promotes cost-efficiency, leaving little waste.

Casting

From bronze sculptures to weapons to stethoscopes, metal casting contributes to a lot of industries. This metalwork technique involves pouring molten metal into a mould that represents the desired shape (no matter how intricate) and letting it cool and solidify, until it transforms into a new object. One of its sub-processes, die casting, is about injecting the hot metal under high pressure into a cavity. Although it can produce a complex end-product, casting can be cost-efficient and quick.

Machining

Machines can also come into play. Metal machining is a manufacturing process that shapes and cuts metal sans the manual labour. This is ideal for when you want finished products to look very polished, or aim to achieve a uniform look if you’re producing many objects. With an expert on board, this process can be achieved through various ways like turning, drilling, and milling, among others.

Welding

When two or more pieces are joined through heat or high pressure, that’s welding. Typically utilising steel and aluminium, welding produces objects like parts used in infrastructure or automobiles.

Stamping

Have flat metal sheets? Through this process, they are placed into a stamping press to be converted into various shapes. 

Among the metals commonly seen in this technique are brass, stainless steel, and copper. Fun fact: Many parts from your washing machine are formed through this operation. 

Extrusion

In extrusion, metal is forced through a die hole and experiences compression (particularly its cross-section) to achieve the target shape. The common products made from this process are pipes, shafts, and window frames. This metalwork process is also flexible and efficient.