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Craft metal has endless decorative possibilities. It is pliable and can be wrapped around or adhered to any surface you can imagine.
This book is all about using coloured craft metal – decorating it by means of embossing, cutting out designs, adding further colour, taking away colour and filling in 3D designs and much more – to customise blanks and found objects for your home. You will learn more about the metal and supporting mediums, and how to use the tools and familiarise yourself with several techniques, all of which can be applied in making more than 50 decorative and functional items.
The original projects were designed and created specifically to show-case a variety of techniques and applications, including:
- Transferring and tracing designs
- Creating texture by means of inexpensive handheld tools or manual processes
- Using an embossing machine such as the cuttlebug™ for textures, patterns and die-cuts
- Finishing techniques such as sanding, ageing and painting
- Upcycling and repurposing
- Tips and tricks to simplify processes
The projects range from beginners to advanced level and from quick ideas to masterpieces that will take longer to complete. Magnificent
photographs of the finished objects will inspire you while step-by-step instructions and photographs will help you to get started right away.
Hierdie boek oorbrug die gaping tussen kuns en handwerk en
verduidelik maklike hand-werk-tegnieke wat enigeen kan gebruik om
oorspronklike kunswerke te skep. Leer hoe om op 'n verskeidenheid
oppervlakke met enigiets van die tradisionele akriel- en olieverf
tot kraakvuller, sement en sand moderne blok-kuns te skep.
Treffende foto's van al die voltooide projekte, vergesel van
duidelike stap-vir-stap aanwysings en nabyskote, wys jou hoe en sal
die sluimerende kunstenaar in jou laat ontwaak. Benewens die
onweerstaanbare projekte, is daar inligting oor basiese tegnieke,
kleur, tekstuur-mediums, kleefmiddels, oplosmiddels, afwerkings en
verseelmiddels, asook 'n nuttige woordelys van tegnieke en
apparaat. Die boek bevat die gewildste projekte uit Kitskuns,
Slimkuns en Blitskuns.
The versatile and inexpensive mini-lathe has become the
best-selling item of machinery in the hobby engineering market, and
is often purchased as a first step by beginners. These miniature
versions of industrial metalworking lathes are a good choice for
model engineers or anyone else who is interested in metalworking
and has a need to fabricate small precision parts.
Mini-Lathe for Home Machinists presents a complete course on using
and improving the new generation of budget lathes. It's a perfect
choice for beginners as well as for those who are experienced with
the lathe, but have never tried the mini-lathe. The skills and
information that the reader will pick up from this book can be
applied again and again to future projects on the machine.
Based on the author's experience using a mini-lathe in his own
workshop, this book covers all of the basics, from safety and
materials to setting up and tuning the machine for best
performance. It includes detailed instructions for making useful
components like shafts, bushings, spindles, part-off tools, DRO
handwheels and a radius turning attachment. Readers will learn how
to use accessories and perform a full range of essential tasks, as
well as how to adjust the mini-lathe for use as a milling
machine.
The book provides an in-depth explanation of the different parts
of the mini-lathe, and addresses how they can be used to complete
different projects. Chapters are broken down into
easy-to-understand sections, and include hundreds of clear
illustrations that will help guide readers as they set up a machine
and start to use it.
'Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.' Wassily
Kandinsky There's nothing like a unicorn to give life some colour.
Relax, take a break and let your imagination soar... So Keep Calm
and Colour Unicorns!
A complete and contemporary update to this best-selling resource
for woodburners, reknowned artist Lora Irish reveals her secrets in
this newly revised edition. Beginner and advanced pyrographers
alike benefit from more than 40 original traceable line art
designs, and step-by-step instructions for transferring a
pyrography pattern.
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