One of the most popular art forms of the past century is stamping. Stamping is the art of pressing designs into sheet metal, thus creating bold relief sculptures. Due to the decline in individual metalworking over the past twenty years, fewer and fewer people know how to stamp metal. But, fortunately, you can learn stamping at the Mount Olive Library on May 27.

Susan Lee, one of the staff demonstrators, will show visitors how to stamp metal artistically. Before you see her presentation, though, there are a few important stamping principles that you should keep in mind.

Metal is a very important input into many finished goods. Although plastic is being increasingly used for many products it does not have the fantastic and high-end look of metal.

If you are producing quality products then you need to make use of metal for its many tremendous properties. Metal tends to look good for much longer than plastic, is much more durable, and has a better appearance.

As such if you need to consider using metal for your products. With modern metal fabrication processes you can get metal molded and cut to just about any specifications.

Supertankers are crossing oceans with enough Liquid Natural Gas, a cleaner burning but volatile fuel, to power a major city for a day. Examine the safety and engineering challenges involved in building these 75,000-ton vessels.

From the Series Man Made, Courtesy of Hulu.Com and The Discovery Channel, enjoy SuperTanker.

This show highlights large scale manufacturing fabrication and welding of sheet metal to form specific components for a mammoth, state-of-the-art liquid natural gas supertanker.

Very interesting use of robot and other technology to fabricate metal components as per detailed computer design specifications. If you are interested in metal fabrication and machining you’ll really enjoy this documentary.