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Pewter - affordable, easy to work with and suitable for making all kinds of practical and decorative objects - is the ideal medium for the home metal smith. This is the only comprehensive guide to working it, and both beginners and intermediates will embrace its valuable information as well as its beautiful design and photography. Respected metalworker Lisa Slovis Mandel teaches readers a variety of fundamental and more advanced techniques, from fusing, soldering and casting, to forming shapes with a hydraulic press. Included are 15 projects, from a basic bowl and ladle to a teapot, along with a gallery of outstanding work for inspiration.
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Lisa Slovis Mandel is an award-winning metal smith, whose many honours include the California Metals Guild Award and whose work is featured in leading galleries across the United States. She has taught and lectured at several colleges and is the US scholarship chairperson for the Womens Jewelry Association.
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Format:Hardcover
This is all about flat work, not casting. Very good for those unsure where to start, especially if you are well used to working in silver and base metals at higher temperatures. Lots of info on the material and its qualities, the tools, equipment and whys & wherefors before the projects are introduced...almost a course in working with pewter. It's helped me quite a bit. Very clear, well explained, excellent photographs. Enough to get you going...more complex books on the subject are available and I would personally buy them later when I am better versed in the basics that this book presents.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Awesome book on fabricating with Pewter
3 Jun 2010
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Ordered this book because of a recommendation from a supply house. I have worked with silver for many years and now do to the authors teaching method I look forward to pursing pewter fabrication.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Almost great
14 Aug 2010
Format:Hardcover
This book has a lot to like. First, there's the metal itself - silvery (modern alloys hold their shine), very affordable, and hugely workable. I have some expereince raising copper and silver, and would love to get back to forging. Then, the author gives a great intro to the working techniques unique to pewter. It forms easily and doesn't need annealing, since its annealing temperature is below room temperature. It solders and even welds at temperatures far below silver and such. Mandel's tip about bismuth-tin solder sounds interesting, too, since its melting point is far less than pewter's - a fact appealing to anyone who's melted a workpiece while hard soldering. The "gallery" aspect of this book offers plenty of inspiration to a wide range of tastes, too.
Still, I found this book somewhat frustrating. After showing how easily pewter can be formed using a modest and accessible set of tools, her first three projects all involve a hydraulic press - not something you see in every hobbyist's workshops, or even in most small professional studios. I find her use of an oxy-gas torch on pewter startling, too. That flame can melt metals at 2000F and up, so seems like overkill for something a soldering iron can weld. (I'll have to try it myself and see if the fineness of the flame mitigates its intense heat, but I expect to melt a lot of practice pieces.) I know that retailers come and go, but the bismuth-tin alloy is a bit exotic - a pointer to Rotometals d.o.t com would have been welcome. And the index? Don't bother.
So, my impression ends up thoroughly mixed. Mandel clearly knows her subject, and offers many valuable pointers, like the importance of avoiding cross-contamination with your other metlawork. Her sections on technique seem easy to follow, despite lack of obvious connection between text and photos (would it have been so hard to number them?). On the other hand, she seems to have forgotten what kind of tools a beginner is likely to have access to. This book offers the best intro I know to this wonderful metal, but it could have been a lot better.
-- wiredweird
Still, I found this book somewhat frustrating. After showing how easily pewter can be formed using a modest and accessible set of tools, her first three projects all involve a hydraulic press - not something you see in every hobbyist's workshops, or even in most small professional studios. I find her use of an oxy-gas torch on pewter startling, too. That flame can melt metals at 2000F and up, so seems like overkill for something a soldering iron can weld. (I'll have to try it myself and see if the fineness of the flame mitigates its intense heat, but I expect to melt a lot of practice pieces.) I know that retailers come and go, but the bismuth-tin alloy is a bit exotic - a pointer to Rotometals d.o.t com would have been welcome. And the index? Don't bother.
So, my impression ends up thoroughly mixed. Mandel clearly knows her subject, and offers many valuable pointers, like the importance of avoiding cross-contamination with your other metlawork. Her sections on technique seem easy to follow, despite lack of obvious connection between text and photos (would it have been so hard to number them?). On the other hand, she seems to have forgotten what kind of tools a beginner is likely to have access to. This book offers the best intro I know to this wonderful metal, but it could have been a lot better.
-- wiredweird
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