Advanced Fabrication
📋 What it is
Fabrication is making parts by cutting, shaping and joining materials — with the right technique and tool for each material.
🗣️ Coach says
Fabrication is turning raw materials into real parts — cutting, drilling, bending, joining. Each material and shape needs the right technique and tool. Skilled fabrication is what turns a design into something solid and precise.
🧠 Memory hook
Fabrication = cut, shape, join. Right tool + technique per material.
😂 Giggle
What did the wire say to the breadboard?
"I feel a real connection between us!"
😲 Whoa!
A skilled maker can join two pieces of metal so strongly that the join is harder to break than the metal around it.
✅ Quick check: What does “fabrication” mean in making?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Making parts by cutting, shaping and joining materials — using the right technique and tool for each material to turn a design into a real object.
Fabrication is the hands-on skill that realises a design.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Name one way to join two pieces of material (glue, screws, welding) and when you’d use it.