The beads provide the opening glance of Trinket by Hamilton-born, Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga, Canada's representative at this year's Venice Biennale, the world's most prestigious art show.

Engineers can turn out highly functional and easy-to-make sheet metal designs by following Design for Manufacturing and Assembly principles.

Welding thin sheet metal can be challenging because you need to obtain adequate fusion while preventing distortion and burnthrough. The key skill is to control the heat across the sheet metal to ...

However, these materials can have more constrained formability than commonly used mild steels. When automotive stampers design sheet metal drawing processes, they must have accurate information on the ...

A bead roller is a tool used in the world of automotive bodywork to press a bead — a continuous depression — into a piece of sheet metal.

Eastwood's bead roller can be mounted to a stand, or for versatility it can be clamped in a vise as we did. Capable of forming material up to 18-gauge, the throat of the roller is 17 inches deep.

Using beading machines for your sheetmetal work gives it a more professional look, so we'll show you some of the machines available for your projects.

New research has confirmed that beads uncovered in 1911 inside an ancient Egyptian tomb were welded from meteoric iron and are the oldest known example of metalworking.