The Long Island duo blends artistic vision and craftsmanship to create custom metal pieces, from sculptures to functional art ...

Image credit: NASA, public domain The technique of explosion welding is relatively new compared to other metal-joining techniques. In the two World Wars of the 20th century, pieces of shrapnel ...

If you heat up a piece of metal and melt some glass onto it ... So far, the team has managed to weld glass, quartz and even sapphire to aluminium, titanium and stainless steel.

Feedstock is supplied in filament form — aka wire — and melted to deposit on the work piece ... welding nozzle matching the wire diameter is used as the electrode on the hot end, while a metal ...