Order from http://www.rapidsteel.us (delivers to 3rd Ward) or from Extremor Stainless Steel 1050 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 718-302-6108 (walking distance from 3rd Ward). Reed has used Extremor and Mike K. has used Rapid Steel.
The material to order is hot rolled mild steel.
Steel generally comes in 24 ft lengths.
The wall thickness or gauge would be 1/8 inch which is .125.
For furniture or sculpture Square Box tubing is a good material. To give you some context we were working on the one foot square cubes from one inch square box tubing last week in class. A one foot square cube requires 12ft of material.
Place a steel order if you have a project idea in mind. Depending on where you are at in the class working with the available scrap steel at 3rd Ward can be very useful to develop your technique and get a sense of sculptural composition.
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