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Scrollwork: Drawing Scrolls and Scroll Design for Engraving – Beginning to Advanced (2 Book Set) by Ron Smith (Dinged Corners)
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Decorative And Sculptural Ironwork Tools, Techniques, Inspiration – U
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With the help of this unique book, all the fascinating properties of iron and other metals can be creatively explored. 52 color plates and 717 b/w photos and drawings present the ideas and examples visually. After a short history of ironwork, the author discusses the ironworking shop, forge and tools, including anvils, vises, hammers, tongs, punches, centrifugal blowers and machine tools. She presents information on building, lighting, and maintaining a fire. Forging procedures are explicitly shown: drawing out, flattening, bending, upsetting, twisting, splitting, punching and drifting, hot cutting on a hardy, and joining and finishing techniques.
Softcover, 312 pages
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Beads & Wires Jewelry: A Step-by-Step Workshop (Beaded Fantasies) – U
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Chicago jewelry designer Ani Afshar invites you to a workshop in your own studio where you can learn her step-by-step methods for weaving jewelry with beads and sterling silver wire. She’ll help you create 5- and 3-strand necklaces and a 3-strand pearl bracelet, with beads of your choice or similar to those she demonstrates. 141 close-up color photographs of each step show her hand positions, tools, and progressive stages of development. Her clear explanations of the techniques she uses will ensure your success. Also included is a gallery of similar jewelry Ani has made that use the same techniques. Be inspired to design your own. If you need supplies, kits are available for the jewelry in this book.
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The Secrets of Building a Plastic Injection Molding Machine – U
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Here is a book that brings the art of plastic injection molding to the home shop level. Working with plastics can be a fun and profitable hobby. If you have ever wanted to produce custom made plastic parts or just want to know how it’s done then this book is for you.
Included are complete step by step instructions on how to build a small inexpensive table top injection molding machine capable of injecting up to 1/2 ounce of plastic into a mold. Sources for plastic will be those things normally thrown away. Stuff like plastic milk jugs, soda pop bottles, plastic oil cans etc.
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How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear – U
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Written by a man who made a lifelong study of leather craft and rawhide work, How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear is the answer to many requests for how-to-do-it information from cowboys, horsemen in â showâ business, dude ranchers, and many other people interested in riding horses and their gear. Bridles, hackamores, reins, reatas, quirts, and riding crops are among the articles of gear that can be made using this well-illustrated book as a guide. Most of the pieces described here are made of rawhide; however, leather thongs and plastic string can be worked in the same manner. Clear and detailed drawings show from beginning to end how to make the articles of gear the horseman uses to work or show his horse to best advantage.
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Inside Japanese Ceramics: Primer of Materials, Techniques, and Traditions – U
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This practical and supremely useful manual is the first comprehensive, hands-on introduction to Japanese ceramics. The Japanese ceramics tradition is without compare in its technical and stylistic diversity, its expressive content, and the level of appreciation it enjoys, both in Japan and around the world. Inside Japanese Ceramics focuses on tools, materials, and procedures, and how all of these have influenced the way traditional Japanese ceramics look and feel. A true primer, it concentrates on the basics: setting up a workshop, pot-forming techniques, decoration, glazes, and kilns and firing. It introduces the major methods and styles that are taught in most Japanese workshops, including several representative and well-known wares: Bizen, Mino, Karatsu, Hagi, and Kyoto.
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Faïences de Lyon et de Nevers – U
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Objets utilitaires et pièces somptueuses, les faïences au fil des siècles racontent des histoires, suscitent la curiosité, étonnent parfois par leur simplicité. Les courants stylistiques se propagent, se croisent, s’influencent tour à tour. Le va-et-vient des artistes contribue aux échanges, aux interprétations, à la naissance de caractéristiques locales. De part et d’autre du Rhône et de la Loire. Lyon et Nevers diffusent leur héritage. Roanne, Moulins, Clermont-Ferrand, le Dauphiné, la Savoie, la Bourgogne auxerroise en ont été les heureux bénéficiaires.
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Wood Carving Basics – U
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Carving is an area of woodworking that has wide appeal and can start as simply as whittling figures with a pocket knife. Since the cost of entry is so low, many people are willing to give it a try. But some people are put off by the conflicting information about what tools to buy, how to sharpen them, and by the bewildering range of carving styles. This book, with its common-sense approach to tools and sharpening, and its broad survey of the many styles is the perfect introduction for the novice carver. The projects will help the beginner become familiar with the tools and learn skills while trying a variety of carving styles to see which suits him best. The projects range from the traditional to the contemporary and reflect the tastes of today’s woodcarvers.
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Steel Canvas: The Art of American Arms – U
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Engravers and embellishers of arms are the stars of this loving tribute to the artistry of firearms.
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Thoughts on the American Flintlock Pistol by S.E. Dyke (Out of Print) – U
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The Metalworker’s Art: A Pictorial Celebration by the Boston Architectural Club – U
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A broad survey of metalwork from ancient times to the twentieth century, this acclaimed monograph displays 115 illustrations of ornamental designs. Images range from the windows and balconies of ancient Italian villages to the gates of English cathedrals and universities and the facades of New York City banks and hotels.
Softcover, 112 pages, black and white photos.
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The Good Grape (Italian Cooking with Grapes) – U
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Hardcover, 72 pages, 28 photos
