Metal: Forming, Forging, And Welding Techniques

by José Antonio Ares

Metal is an unusually satisfying medium for many artists, but working in metal requires a considerable amount of specialized knowledge and practical skill. This book teaches those skills. It makes a fine textbook for apprentice metalworking artists, presenting a basic overview of the science of metallurgy, then discussing needed tools, safety equipment, and metalworking methods. Detailed chapters cover such techniques as welding, shaping, and cutting metals as a means of fashioning art objects and practical items. A variety of beautiful and useful objects are shown as they are being made in a series of step-by-step photos. Objects include weather vanes, wrought-iron decorative fixtures for inside and outside the home, trays, tables, and imaginative sculptures. Students are instructed in how to work with iron, aluminum, copper, zinc, and several other metals. The book is filled with hundreds of color illustrations.

Genres: Art

160 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2004

Reviews

[Mario Hiter · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book explores metal forming, forging, and soldering techniques. Using hammer to shape metal versus filing and grinding is a very important technique that a metalsmith can learn, so that a material is not wasted. It would also provide students with an opportunity to learn processes of forming larger objects beyond jewelry. This book was picked as a detailed guide to these processes and to give students some different option at soldering techniques.

[Gabisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

way of metal forming and way of approach to the real technology