London Sculpture Workshop Facilities

LSW offers a superbly equipped metal and wood workshop with additional mould-making and hot-metal working areas.

LSW offers specialist Equipment & Tools for each dedicated area to support the production of a wide variety of artistic practices and processes.  LSW also provides a wide range of both power tools, hand tools and access to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Woodworking Equipment

  • Band Saw – A large Startrite Bandsaw with a large cutting capacity
  • Dimension Tablesaw – A large Wadkin tablesaw that will cut 8 x 4ft boards easily. We also have a rip blade for thicker timber.
  • Face sander – This is for sanding and facing off wood and plastics
  • Pillardrill – We have a small heavy duty pillar drill for drilling of woods and plastic etc
  • Wood chop off saw – For cutting wood

Mouldmaking room

We have a large scale mould making room with large workbenches with ample space to make moulds.

Mobile Foundry

Available for bespoke private commissions and events. Please contact info@londonsculptureworkshop.org for further details.

Metalworking Equipment

  • Air Compressors – These run our air tools and plasma cutters
  • AC/DC Tigwelder x 3 – Used for fine and delicate work
  • Migwelder x 3 – These heavy duty migwelders can comfortably weld up to 20mm thickness of steel
  • Spot welder – Used for thin sheet metal, will spot weld up to a 2mm thickness of metal
  • Bench Grinder – This is used primarily for grinding steel
  • Bar Bender – For bending bar, rod and strip metal up to 12mm or equivalent steel round bar
  • Brazing Hearth – This is a designated area for brazing
  • Buffer Polisher – This is used primarily for polishing steel
  • Engineers Lathe  – For turning down metal
  • Finger folder – Used to fold sheet metal, enabling you to fold boxes up to 2mm thick
  • Large Engineering drill – This has a large drilling capacity from fine drill work up to heavy duty drilling
  • Small Milling Machine – For milling metal
  • Linisher – This is a general metal sanding machine
  • Metal Cut Off Saw – This will cut from 6mm small steel bar up to 75mm flat bar
  • Small metal bandsaw – For cutting metal
  • Metal Guillotine – This will cut mild steel sheet up to 1 mm and aluminium up to 1.2mm
  • Plasma Cutter x 2 – These have a cutting capacity of 10mm for solid steel and will cut other materials like copper and aluminium
  • Power Hacksaw – This has the capacity to cut heavier duty sections of metal eg. Girders
  • Sandblaster – Used to clean and roughen up surfaces in various materials
  • Sheet Metal Notcher – This has a cutting capacity to cut from 1mm mild steel plate up to 3mm mild steel plate
  • Sheet Metal Rollers – Used to roll sheet metal up to 3mm and round bar up to 8mm