Creative Metal Crafts: 25 Beautiful Projects for Your Home

by Joanna Gollberg

Book Overview

Create one-of-a-kind metal projects for the home with these quickly learned "cold-connection" techniques that take the intimidation out of an appealing art form. Every step of the process is beautifully and pictorially covered, from piercing and sawing to riveting and bending, along with essential surface treatments, including filing, chasing, polishing, and adding patinas. Build your skills on 25 eye-catching items--attractive shower curtain hangers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579907458
• ISBN13: 9781579907457
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Do-able Projects!!!!

Great book with beautifully illustrated step-by-step instruction. All of the projects are do-able and practical.

Who needs a torch?...

If you think metal crafts are complex and expensive, you were wrong. This book will show you not even a torch or an anvil are needed. Joanna Gollberg guides you through the creation of 25 easy projects one can create just using metal sheets, simple scribes, a jeweler or marquetry saw, metal wires and thin tubes. The projects are briefly described, but once you master the basic techniques you can get the general idea and then work on your own projects, creating beautiful little (or not so little) crafts. The photographies and templates are first quality, and the book binding too, what a beautiful book!. Books like this one worths the effort I do ordering them from Spain! I was curious about a book that claimed it was possible to create metal crafts using "cold joinery", and the truth is this didn't disappoint me. It deserves an eye from every casual crafter or hobby searcher. I want more books like this one!