The Mesa Arts Center Jewelry Studios are among the best equipped facilities in the southwestern United States. Studio A, the main bench room, is equipped with professional jeweler’s benches for every student. Most benches sport the Benchmate bench pin plus all the basic hand tools, small jeweler’s vice and flex shaft. We will continue to add more photos as well as a gallery of the sculpture studio. Click on an image to see an enlargement.
Studio A equipment includes:
50-ton Bonnie Doon hydraulic press
20-ton deep draw Bonnie Doon hydraulic press
A large array of complementary equipment for each press
A wide variety of stakes and forming hammers in metal and Delrin
A plexiglass shielded grinder/ polisher with a state of the art filtration system
2 belt sanders
2 rolling mills
Durston shear
Beverly shear
Various daps, punches and essential forming tools
vacuum and centrifugal casters
2 Vulcanizers
2 dedicated burnout kilns
acetylene and air torches
A fully equipped soldering area with ventilation
Oxy-acetylene torch
Large electroforming bath and acids/ etching area
Studio B accommodates enameling, lapidary and precious metal clay (PMC).
Equipment includes:
Graves faceting machines
Diamond Pacific lapidary grinders
24″ slab saw and trim saws
4 enameling kilns
Large communal work table
Genie and Pixie lapidary machines
PMC Kilns