The Art of Metal Spinning: A Step-By-Step Guide to Hand-Spinning
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The Art of Metal Spinning: A Step-By-Step Guide to Hand-Spinning
Written by a professional metal spinning artisan with twenty five years' experience in the art, design and automobile aftermarket fields. This is the perfect workshop companion for anyone interested in learning this 3,000 year old craft. Topics include safety issues, tools and equipment setups, chuckmaking and metals for spinning. Projects include bowl shapes in three different heights, spheres, bezels, trumpeted shapes and straight-sided work. An entire chapter is devoted to making a three piece copper top section of a large post lantern, which illustrates some advanced techniques of spinning. With it's high-tech binding and over 150 clear b&w photos printed on heavy stock, this is one rugged book.