"With beautiful illustrations and step-by-step instructions, this how-to book includes all the techniques involved in crafting metal jewelry, including:--Cutting and filing--Cold connections--Soldering--Texturing--Forging and forming--Setting stones--Applying specialty finishesThe book's clear organization provides easy access to information with straightforward directions and hundreds of full-color photos. You'll also find easy projects for trying...

Includes designs and step-by-step instructions for embossing on metal.

Bend, twist, shape, and polish with Cool Metalworking Projects! Kids can learn how to build a magnetic metal maze, design shoes with metal spring laces, and more! Each workshop project includes easy-to-read, step-by-step instructions paired with photographs. Budding craftspeople and engineers will love learning how to use the tools of the trade to make one-of-a-kind creations. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard...

Beautifully enhance the radiant surface of metal with embossing, an exciting craft for creating raised designs. The more than 20 fast and easy projects will enable you to make many lovely patterns -- from decorative motifs to floral landscapes to animal prints -- using aluminum, copper, and brass foils. Try all the embossing techniques in a sampler that you turn into a picture frame. Create stylish trim and adorn your photo album, or use flat relief...

Detailed descriptions of materials and easy-step-by-step instructions for a variety of techniques from bead stringing and wirework to chain making, metalwork, resin, and more.

Chainmail Bottle Carriers is a starter guide to making useful, attractive and fun projects with metal and other materials. It is meant to help beginners to learn techniques and develop skills while providing options to go on beyond the projects presented to create new and unique designs. The book goes beyond simple sets of instructions to help the reader understand why and how to do things as well as what to do. It is intended both as a starting point...

Your complete guide to the uses of a lathe for all forms of screwcutting! • Comprehensive manual explaining all the uses of a lathe for every form of screwcutting in various thread forms, pitches, and diameters • Includes calculations, gear trains, conversions, and other helpful reference tables • Both imperial and metric standards are provided • Author Martin Cleeve was a well-respected contributor to Model Engineer magazine for more than...

If you want to learn wire weaving without paying $60 for a single weaving class, then keep reading...Do you want to learn how to make wire woven jewelry, but don't know where to start? Do you want to learn at home, without having to pay $60 for attending a single wire weaving class? Do you want to start without having to break your bank with expensive tools and materials? As a beginner, I, the author, also faced such problems. That is why I came...

From the leading magazine for metalworkers since 1898, Model Engineer, comes this curated collection of practical advice and useful tips anyone in the industry needs to know! Jam-packed with information that's as relevant today as it was during its original publication, spanning from the 1890s to the 1960s, Metalworkers' Hint and Tips include sections on lathes and lathe work, bench work, machine tools and accessories, electrical queries, and other...