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Metal Techniques for Craftsmen: A Basic Manual for Craftsmen on The Methods of Forming and Decorating Metals - USA Doubleday & Company Inc. 1975 - xiv, 509 illustrations 27 cm

Metals: Basic information -- Metals: origin, behavior, and manufacture -- Classification of metals -- Manufacture of metals -- Metal decorative techniques: Metal techniques that do not require soldering -- Decorative techniques employing contrasting metals -- Metal techniques that require soldering -- Combining metals with nonmetallic materials -- Methods of metal fabrication: Silversmithing -- Forging -- Oxyacetylene fusion welding -- Cold metal spinning -- Joining with rivets, nails, and screws -- Casting -- Electroplating and electroforming -- Metal finishing: Polishing and grinding -- Coloring metals -- Hand tools and their uses: Basic tool groups -- Charts and tables -- Glossary of terms

Covers the art of decorative metal work, with step-by-step instructions, up until 1975

0385030274 9780385030274

1968

English


Art metal-work
General

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