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Making a Copper Weathervane

Helmreich

Folk art subjects used in American weathervanes are shown, including domesticated and wild animals, birds, occupations, patriotic themes, and transportation. Create your own design or use the complete set of plans included to produce a traditional rooster weathervane. Using basic tools (tin snips and hammers), ageless techniques, and sheet copper available at your local sheet metal shop, this book will teach you how to make a weathervane that will serve your roof for years. Whether you are an experienced metal worker, or a woodworker who is looking for a challenge, this is the book for you.

Using over 290 crisp color images, 25 detailed line drawings, and concise text, Bruce Helmreich guides readers through the steps necessary to build a hand-hammered copper weathervane. This step-by-step guide transforms a sheet of copper into a fully functioning weathervane.

160 Pages, 8 1/2 x 11 (Soft Cover), 299 color photos, 25 b/w drawings

Item #: BK809

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Metal Corrugation-Surface Embellishment and Element Formation for the Metalsmith

McAleer

This book is guaranteed to infuse and inspire you with the playful creativity this process has to offer! Using a variety of tools and techniques you will rapidly be taken beyond any traditional utilitarian appearance seen with corrugated material that is part of our everyday life. Discover how you can get those waves into your metal. Several years in research make this book a must for personal expression in metalsmithing and a necessity in your personal library.

142 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 (Hardbound)

Item #: BK988

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Metal Crafting Workshop

Browning

Versatile and inexpensive, metal can be pierced, punched, cut, embossed, twisted, folded and hammered. The 45 fabulous projects in this unusual workshop run the gamut from elegant tableware to whimsical party lights. Completeing them will introduce you to new and time-honored techniques.

128 Pages, 10 x 9 (Hardbound)

Item #:BK992

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Metal Embossing Workshop

Muldoon

From flowing scrollwork to intricate butterflies with mother-of pearl accents, the raised designs Muldoon creates on metal are exquisite. She uses traditional embossing techniques to impart luster, radiance, dimension, and texture to this versatile material. After describing the tools and supplies you'll need, Muldoon explains the simple steps required for accomplishing the basic techniques. Learn how to create borders, attach cabochon gems to add color and dimension, make metal cutouts to lend interest, and more. Then try any of the thirty projects for embellished home accessories and paper crafts.

128 pages, 10 x 9 (Hard Cover)

Item #: BK979

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Metals Technic: A Collection of Techniques for Metalsmiths

McCreight

160 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, 145 illustrations, 2-color throughout (Paperback)

A wonderful collection of articles written by 12 leaders of the fine metals and jewelry design field covering a wide variety of topics such as: granulation, reticulation, fold-forming, anticlastic raising, toolmakaing and more.  Contributors are:  John Cogswell, Philip Fike, Michael Good, Susan Kingsley, David La Plantz, Charles Lewton-Brain, Tim McCreight, Komelia Okim, Kris Patzlaff, Claire Sanford, Mary Ann Scherr, Heikki Seppa

Item #: BK204

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Metalsmith's Book of Boxes and Lockets, The

McCreight

144 pages, 8 x 10, 288 photographs (Hardcover)

This book is a follow-up to "Fundamentals by McCreight" with 288 high-quality photos and practical information.  In addition to featuring scores of exciting boxes by contemporary designers from around the world, the book describes dozens of hinges, catches and construction techniques in practical detail.  Intended for intermediate metalsmiths, this book will not only teach you how to make that special hinge, but get you excited about what to do with it.

Item #: BK205

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Methods for Modern Sculptors

Young and Fennell

This book covers methods of making many types of sculptures such as mold making and ceramic shell casting.  Includes an eleven-page glossary of terms and charts.  Over 90 illustrations and charts.

294 Pages, 6 x 9 (Paperback)

Item #: BK255

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Moving Metal

Adolf Steines

132 pages, 8 x 10

This book is a long overdue treat for jewelers, blacksmiths, sculptors, and all artists of metalwork. It has information on chasing and repoussé in greater depth and detail than any other volume today available in the English language. Painstakingly translated from German this text is a valuable resource for both the professional and the hobbyist. Adolf Steines is clearly a master metalworker who enthusiastically demonstrates his creativity, knowledge, skill, and experience. The book thoroughly addresses the workroom, tools, materials, working surfaces (including carpeting and pitches), transfer of designs, sinking, raising, stamping, chasing, repoussé, engraving, soldering, etching, as well as the coloring and protection of metal surfaces. Numerous examples of the author's works are illustrated including large scale doors, fountains, memorials, wall sculptures and portraits, as well as many delicate jewelry pieces. A number of tricks and special techniques are described, such as using air powered hammers for forming and chasing. Profusely illustrated with very clear drawings and quality photographs of objects and procedures, this book is essential for the library of every serious artist working with metal. (translated from the German)107 photographs, 111 detailed drawings.

Item #: BK914

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Nahum Hersom, Repousse

by Jerry Henderson

62 pages, (Spiral bound)

Repousse means to repeal in French; the craftsmen that did Repousse work were often called embossers. Jerry's background in Repousse comes from Nahum Hersom. Nahum Hersom offers a Repousse worshop at his shop in Boise, Idaho. This book documents his workshop and parts of his hand written workbook. Nahum came from a generation that didn't have a lot of extra money, so if they needed something they had to make it. The value of this book is to give the blacksmith and other metalworkers a foundation to do Detail and Definition work, specifically Ornamental Metal. The German method of embossing is what Nahum Hersom teaches; he learned his craft from Mr.Valatine Goelz.

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Patinas for Silicon Bronze

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Kipper

This comprehensive book is a guide for patination, the art of bronze coloration, and is a valuable resource for the sculpture, novice and master patineur.  It includes recipes for 75 master patinas, step-by-step instructions with variations for silicon bronze patinas, traditional and contemporary. 

Corresponding color plates, metal surface preparation and application techniques are also included.  Colored photos of bronze sculptures show the reader ideas how the patinas appear on 3-dimensional surfaces.

232 pages, 8-1/2 x 11 (Hardcover)

Item #: BK421

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Pewter

Limited Stock Sale! 

Hull

There was scarcely a household in Britain that did not possess some items of pewter: bowls, plates, spoons, candlesticks, toys and buttons were some of the everyday objects made of this alloy of tin. Introduced to Britain by the Romans, the pewter trade became widespread in the middle ages, and English pewter became renowned for its high quality. The trade reached a peak in the seventeenth century.

Competition from other materials brought a decline in the eighteenth century and the main centre of production moved from London to the Midlands. In the nineteenth century new techniques of manufacture were introduced in Sheffield, now the predominant centre of the trade in Britain. Reference is also made to the craft in other countries and there is advice for collectors.

32 pages, 5-5/8 x 8-1/4 (Paperback)

Item #: BK416

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PMC Decade

McCreight and Friedlich

It has been ten years since Mitsubishi Materials Corporation developed and patented Precious Metal Clay. The first decade of PMC has seen tremendous growth, not only in the development of additional forms of the material, but in the innovative ways that artists are using metal clay to create unique and exciting works. This high quality presentation book will be the first to showcase the best work being done around the world.

  • Critical essay by Donald Friedlich
  • Technical essay by Darnall Burks
  • Detailed illustrated chronology

    • 256 Pages, 8.5 x 10 (Hardcover), 250+ photos

    Item #: BK784

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    PMC Technic

    McCreight

    Full color, dozens of photos and illustrations
    Hardcover with jacket, sewn binding

    Every once in a while, dedicated artists and students are lucky enough to study with someone who had researched and mastered a specific technique. In this book, ten leading artists teach their specialty, with clarity, care, and passion:

    • Tonya Davidson-PMC Syringe
    • Celie Fago-Making Hinges
    • Jennifer Kahn-PMC Bezels
    • Doris King-Fusing Sterling and PMC
    • Terry Kovalcik -Developing Form with Slip
    • Noortje Meijerink-PMC on Ceramic
    • Kelly Russell-Using Stencils with PMC
    • Barbara Simon -Lampworking and PMC
    • CeCe -WireWater Etching on PMC
    • J. Fred Woell-Coreless Beads

    120 Pages, 8 x 11 (Hardcover)

    Item #: BK785

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    Setting Stones In Metal Clay

    Landenwitch

    This is a hardcover, full color book that focuses specifically on setting gems. Through photos, illustrations, and clear instructions, Jeanette demonstrates more than 30 ways to set stones. These include traditional bezels but goes further to discuss pavé, channel setting, and many innovative alternatives. In addition you'll find inspirational work made by talented artists from around the world.

    120 Pages, 10 x 7 1/2 (Hardcover-Laminated), photos

    Item #: BK811

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    Sheet Metal Work

    Wakeford

    Whether folding a chassis for a piece of equipment, beating or spinning a curved shape, drilling or punching holes or repairing a tank or car panel, the how and the why is simply explained in this comprehensive book. The author, R.E. Wakeford, is an instructor in metalwork and allied crafts and uses his teaching experience to describe clearly all the processes likely ot be encountered by the hobbyist of in a model or light engineering workshop.

    152 pages, 5-3/4 x 8-1/4 (Paperback)

    Item #: BK396

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    Tinsmith's Helper and Pattern Book, The

    Vosburgh

    This is a reprint of the 1910 edition of the classic handbook first published in 1879.  It contains 53 diagrams and patterns covering a wide variety of products and layouts, each fully explained.  There is also an extensive appendix that gives tables, rules, and practical recipes that continue to be of great interest to contemporary tinsmiths.  A clear, concise and practical handbook that will prove most valuable to anyone engaged in, or with an interest in, tinsmithing.

    120 Pages, 6 x 9 (Paperback)

    Item #: BK445

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    Working with Precious Metal Clay

    McCreight

    Since Precious Metal Clay (PMC) was introduced to artists in the United States three years ago, thousands of jewelers, beadmakers and polymer clay artists have discovered its huge potential. Until now the only text on the subject has been a translation of a Japanese book, but that's about to change. Tim McCreight, one of the first American designers to work with PMC, has created an information-filled book suited to beginners and professionals. The first section consists of 50 projects that teach how to use the material by showing specific applications. Use these ideas or modify them to make your own work - either way you'll find a wealth of information on every page. A second section includes 25 techniques, while a third part describes 15 tools you can make for yourself. This is a must-have book for anyone interested in this revolutionary new material.

    128 Pages, (Hard cover), 300+ drawings

    Item #: BK 786

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