Metcalf Store

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Attention!!!! The Metcalf Store will be closed until August 26 2008 when we will reopen in our new location of the first floor bank building. This move is a positive change for the store and customers. The new location will have street level access and will be more inviting to the entire RISD community. To help provide for our customers during the transition a temporary store will be set up in the RISD Bookstore starting June 16th with a limited inventory of supplies. Weappreciate your patience and understanding during this move. For Risd Store hours or infomation please see the RISD Store' s page athttp://intranet.risd.edu/departments/default.asp?department=RISD_Store

The RISD Metcalf Store AKA the Metcalf Supply Store is RISD's hardware and materials store. The Metcalf sells everything from lumber to plastics, plaster to glues.

401-454-6354 - Metcalf Website

• These hours may have changed recently, so plan accordingly.
• (Most weeks) (may be wrong)

• Monday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
• Tuesday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
• Wednesday: 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM
• Thursday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
• Friday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
• Saturday: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
• Sunday: CLOSED

[edit] Silver

Silver sale hours at the Metcalf Instructional supply store. Silver, for jewelry classes, projects and public, or other use is sold in the form of sheet, wire (round or square), or tube. Sheet silver is sold by the square inch, in even or whole inches only, wire, (round) is sold in any length, tube is sold in one foot sections only, as is square wire.

Silver hours, as they have come to be called are the hours of the day that silver may be purchased at the Metcalf Instructional supply store.

• Monday: 10-11AM, 3-4PM
• Tuesday: 10-11AM, 3-4PM
• Wednesday 10-11AM. 5-6PM
• Thursday 10-11AM, 3-4PM
• Friday 10-11AM, 3-4PM
• Saturday 11-12AM

[edit] Ordering from the metcalf

All orders should be placed at LEAST 24 hours in advance.

3D materials such as foams are typically sold by the Board Foot while planer materials such as plywood, styrene, PETG and Masonite are typlically sold by the Square Foot.

Full sheets of materials, such as Plywood or Styrene may be purchased with out placing an order. Orders only need to be placed if something from the back room needs to be cut.

[edit] Painting Stretchers

The Metcalf Instructional Supply Store also fabricates different styles and sizes of painting stretchers. These may be made to order, and may take as long as a full seven days to be made ready for pickup. The two main types of stretchers are canvas clad wood framed, or solid panel. (We do not however stretch the canvas, you must do that somewhere else) our shop is not condusive for this function. Canvas stretcher frames and bars have been made in sizes from six inches to fourteen feet. Solid panel stretchers, as they are called are made of either masonite or birch skins with a 1 by 2 pine frame. The birch stretchers cost only slightly more than the masonite but are one third to one half the weight. At present, there is now a new painting product available, a masonite or birch clad foamkore, approximately 3/4 of an inch thick and very light in weight. These are usually precut and can be purchased on the spot, and are the least expensive of the stretchers types. (you can also paint on both sides)

[edit] Hardwoods/ Lumber

Hardwoods (IE not plywood) can be cut to length for you on the spot without placing an order. The Metcalf Store will not rip any hardwood lumber. Any size of lumber my be cut for you as long as you leave at least 18 inches behind. If you you do not leave at least 18in on the board, you MUST purchase the entire board. This is because boards need to be at least 18in to be put in the planer, (A machine that flattens/evens the surface of wood) and therefore boards shorter than 18in are unusable to most students.

Lumber is priced by the board foot, but the prices differ depending on their quarter. Quarter refers to their thickness in inches. 4/4 (said as "four quarter") is inch thick, while 8/4 (said as "eight quarter") is two inch thick. Pricing for eight quarter ( 8/4 or 2in) is more than double the cost of four quarter (4/4 or 1in). This is because they are larger pieces of wood, and harder to find. But if you need eight quarter, you need eight quarter.