Ceramics Studio, built 2000

Ox-Bow’s ceramics studio is a 1200 square foot, winterized building with an open floor plan. There are 5 large canvas-covered worktables and 13 electric throwing wheels. There is a small glaze room and a kiln room that houses our 3 large electric kilns.  There is a large, outdoor patio space off of the back of the studio, which is used as extra workspace during the summer. There are covered portions of the patio that extend over our gas and wood fire kilns.

Ceramics Studio

• 13 Electric sit-down potter wheels

• 100+ Throwing bats

• Slab Roller

• Manual extruder with die set

• Ware Boards

• Gas Reduction Car Kiln- 40 cubic feet (outdoors)

• Wood Kiln- Bourry Box- 80 cubic feet (outdoors)

• Gas Raku Kiln- Lifted Barrel (outdoors)

• Large Oval Electric Kiln- computer controlled

• Medium Barrel Electric Kiln- computer controlled

• Large Barrel Electric Kiln- computer controlled

• Small test Kiln- computer controlled

• Ball Mill

• Soldner Clay Mixer

• Fluke Digital Pyrometer

• Vented and well-stocked glaze room

• Vented Kiln Room

• Five 4'x8' Work Tables

• Large Spray Gun

• 2 Small airbrush/spray guns

Metals Studio, built 1995

The Metals studio is an 800 square foot covered, open-air studio with cement flooring. There is a small indoor storage area and workstation. The studio has welding, blacksmithing and casting equipment as well as a variety of hand tools and woodworking equipment.

Metals Studio Equipment

Welding:

• Millermatic MIG 210

• Hobart Handler 210MVP MIG Welder

• Hobart EZ TIG 165i

• PowerMax 800 Plasma Cutter

• PowerMax 1000 Plasma Cutter

• 2 Setups for Oxy/Acetylene Cutting/Welding/Brazing

• 2 Auto-Darkening Welding Helmets

• 4 Regular Welding Helmets

• 16 Lt. Duty Welding Jackets

Large Equipment:

• Ellis 1600 Horizontal Bandsaw

• JET 12” Disc Sander  708432K

• Grizzly G7944 Drill Press

• Glastar Skat-Blast Sandblaster 21999

• 2’ Sheet Metal Shear

• Dewalt Mitre Saw for Wood DW717

• Dewalt Portable Table Saw for Wood DW744

• Porter Cable Bandsaw for Wood PCB330BS

• 6” Bench Grinder

 Small Power Tools:

• 4 - 4 1/2” Angle Grinders

• Dewalt Jigsaw

• Circular Saw

• 2 Makita Electric Die Grinders

• 4 Pneumatic Die Grinders

• Milwaukee 12” Metal Chop Saw

• 2 Bosch Cordless Impact Drivers

• 2 Bosch Cordless Drills

• 2 light duty Hitachi Corded Drills

• Dewalt 7.8 Amp Corded Drill with keyed Chuck

• Dremel Tool

 Blacksmithing:

• 10 Coal Forges

• 2 Gas Forges

• Venturi Burner

• 10 Anvils

• 7 Vices

• Swage Block

• German Hammers

• Rounding Hammers

• Various Clamps

• Gooseneck V-Bit Tongs

• Box Tongs

• Files

• Cold Chisels

• Wire Brushes

• Various Rivets

Casting:

• Small Furnace that Holds a #10 Crucible

• 2 # 10 Crucibles

• 8 Sets of Safety Gear

• Spats

• Aprons/Chaps

• Jackets

• Gloves

• 3 Face Shields

• Helmets with Wire Mesh Shields

• Various Wax Tools

• 2 Five Gallon Pails of Plumbego Graphite

Miscellaneous Hand Tools:

• Crescent Wrenches

• Allen Keys

• Screw Drivers

• Carpenter Hammers

• Various Screw Sizes

• Butchers Paste Wax

• Hack Saws

• Sledge Hammers

• Files

• Scrapers

• Brushes

• Nitrile Gloves

• Drill Bits

• Level

• Various Tools or measuring and layout

• Tape Measures

• Wax Tools

• Scales

Computers

• 2 - 27” iMac 3.2 GHz Core i5 (Late 2015) running Mojave 2019

• 27” iMac 3.4 GHz Quad Core Intel Core i7 (Mid 2011) running El Capitan 2015

• Mac Pro 2.8 GHz Intel Quad Core Xeon (2008) running El Capitan 2015

All have the following software installed:

• Adobe Creative Suite CS6-

• Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, In Design, Bridge, Audition, Dreamweaver, Encore,  Extension Manager, Fireworks, Flash Builder, Preclude

• Microsoft Office

Printers 

• 2 - Epson Stylus Pro 3880 (prints 17” wide)

• Canon ipf6300 (prints 24” wide)
  (length of prints on these machines is only limited by the length of the media/roll) *Our studio carries some basic photo papers in Lustre, Matte, and Gloss

•  Afinia H-series 3d printer (2011)

Scanners

• 2 - Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner

Photo and Video
**Anyone using video/photo equipment should bring their own memory cards.

• 2 - Canon EO5 60D DSLR (2019)

• Nikon d3400 DSLR (2018)

• Black Box Mobius Pro action camera (2014)

• Flir One Thermal Imaging cam for iOS (2017)

• Kodak ZX1 HD pocket video camera (2009)

• 2 light reflectors

• 4 Creative Live! HD Sync web cams

• 3 Canon vixia hv30 HD miniDV cams

• 10 Tripods of various sizes

• Handheld camera grip (S)

• 5 iphone tripod mounts

• Memory cards and usb card readers

• VHS player

Projectors and accessories

• Panasonic PT-AX200U (2007)

• Sanyo Proxtrax multiverse projector PLC-XU75 (2012) ceiling mounted in gallery

• Vivitek Qumi Q2-LiteB HD pocket projector (2012)

• NEC VT670 Projector (2006)

• Panasonic PT-LB2VU projector (2011)

• EIKI film projector

• Micca speck g2 media player (2012)

• HDMI, USB-C, Thunderbolt, VGA, DVI cables and adapters

Audio

• 6 Marantz PMD660 field recorders (2-channel) (2005)

• 1 zoom H2 handy recorder (2007)

• 1 rode boom pole

•  4 aux computer speakers

• 2 pairs headphones

• 1 Monster Rockin’ Roller portable speaker

• 1 xlr ¼”cable

• 2 ¼” mini adapter

• ¼” coiled cable

• Aux cable f/m

• 2 aux m/m

• Extra mic

• 2 firewire 9 pin / 4 pin

• Firewire 9 pin / 6 pin

 Sewing

• 4 x Singer 4452 sewing machines (2019)

• PFAFF select 1530 sewing machine

• Brother 1034D Serger (2019)

• Brother PE800 5x7” digital embroidery machine (2019)

• 3 irons

• 1 ironing board

• 3 Glue guns

• Sewing manuals, notions, and misc items

Print studio equipment

Etching/Relief

• 1 Charles Brand Etching Press 30” x 50” bed

• 1 Takach Table Top Etching Press  24” x 48”

•  1 Vertical Etching Tank (Ferric Chloride Only) and hydrometer

• 1 Charles Brand Hot Plate 24” x 36”

• 3 Rubber Hand Inking Rollers 15”, 18”, 19” various durometers

• 2 Takach rubber hand brayers 8 and 10”

• 3 takach rubber hand brayers 4”

• 1 takach rubber hand brayers 8”

• 15 assorted speedball rubber hand brayers 1.5” - 6”

• 6 paper soaking trays, accommodating paper sizes up to 26” x 30”

Monotype - Plexi at various sizes. Smallest 6x6 and largest 15x16.5. Most of 9x12, 12x18, and 14x17.

 Lithography 

• 1 Takach Table Top Lithography Press 24” x 48” bed

• 1 Parks Lithographic Hand Press, Robert Mayer & Co. 26” x  36” bed

•  Approximately 75 Litho Stones, various sizes, between 8” x 10” - 16” x 24”

•  NuArc Flip-top Platemaker  36” x 45” exposure area (for photolitho plates, photo-etching, polymer) (one side converted as a vacuum unit for screenprinting)

•  Large graining sink

• 2 Levigators

• 3 conditioned leather rollers (Black only) (1 @ 12”, 2 @ 14”)

•  Scraper Bars (all sizes up to 25”)

• Tympans (up to 24” x 36”)

• Litho Fans

Screenprinting

• Polycop direct contact photo-screen exposing unit 48” x 76”

• NuArc Automated Exposure Unit  25” x 36” (kept as backup - black velvet pads are for this machine) 

• Screens - varies sizes with approx. 36 in total; most: 22 - 20 x 24” @ 230 mesh 

• 13 Moveable Printing boards with hinge clamps (24 x 37”)

• Fabric Printing Boards- 36” x 72”, 48” x 96”

• Scoopcoaters (11”, 19”, and 24”0

• Squeegees in a variety of sizes 6”-24” - most @ 70 durometer stiffness 

• Blackline Mfg, Backlit Washout Unit, with Filter Unit- opening is 35” x 54”

• 1500 PSI Pressure Washer

Digital Print Process Equipment

•  Mac Pro Tower 2.8 GHz Intel Quad Core Xeon w/ 20” Apple Cinema Display

• HP Laserjet 5100tn Printer (prints 8.5” x 11” and 11” x 17”)

• Epson V600 scanner

Letterpress

• Vandercook 3 Proof Press

• 30 galley trays

• Type: See Separate Document

• Print tweezers, 9 type setting guides, pica/point rulers

• Slug cutter

• micrometer

Other Equipment

• NuArc Drafting/Proofing Light Table 30” x 40” (upstairs)

• Paper cutter Kutrimmer 1100 30” x 40”

• Accucutter Model 2001 12” Shear

•  2-Book Nipping Presses

• 2 AWT Drying Racks 22” x 30”

• Portable Inking Slabs

The Glass Studio, built 1995

The glass studio is located along the lagoon. It is an open-air studio with pull down garage doors, 3 glory holes, a central furnace and 3 annealers. There is a screened-in work area at the back of the studio as well as a small cold shop.

Hot Shop

• 2-door Double Venturi Brothers Furnace (250 lb Crucible) with Crystalica clear

• Color Furnace (25 lb crucible) 

• 3 Glory holes powered by propane and blowers (interior: 16” Diameter x 32” L)

• 3 Annealers (2 top-loader, 1 front-loader)

• 1 Garage with forks and shovel

• 1 Small pickup box

• Pipe warmer

• Compressed air

• 17 3/4” standard workhorse pipes

• 11 1/2” small pipes

• 11 1/2” small punties

• 7 3/4" punties

• 1 1” pipe

• 1 1” punty

Hand Tools:

• 3 Jacks (2 small, 1 large)

• Diamond shears (large and small)

• Straight shears (large, medium, duckbill and bonsai)

• Tweezers (small)

• Bent and straight puffers

• Tagliol

• Crimps

• Full complement of wooden blocks

• Parchoffi

• Bench wax

• Newsprint

• Chalk

• 2 MAPP torch-heads and gas tanks

• Oxygen tanks

• Propane tanks

• Chemtane tanks

• Kevlar and leather gloves

• Face shields

• Heat-resistant jackets

• Welding jackets

COLD SHOP:

• Water-feed chop saw

• Flat wheel

• Available pads: 320, 100/80, 80, 60

• Double-sided lathe

• Available wheels: 220

• Cold working aprons

FLAMEWORKING:

• 10 Nortel minor torches

• Sculpting tools

• Stainless steel tweezers

• Reamers 

CASTING:

• Olivine Sand/Bentonite mix

• Screens

• Oxy/acetylene torch

• Ladles

• Plaster

• Silica flour

 FIRST AID AND SAFETY:

• Fully stocked first-aid kits

• Safety glasses

• Ear protection

• Dust masks

• P-100 respirator mask cartridges (3M)