Foldforming [Kindle Edition] Author: Charles Lewton-Brain | Language: English | ISBN:
B00H22GJB8 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Download Foldforming Epub Free for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link More than 20 years ago, Canadian goldsmith Charles Lewton-Brain invented a radical way to develop forms in metal sheet. In the ensuing decades, he has led hundreds of metalsmiths to explore and expand on his pioneering work. Now for the first time, the results of those efforts are compiled into a comprehensive review. With practical techniques and over 450 photographs, this groundbreaking book sets a standard for breadth, authority, and inspiration. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Foldforming Epub Free
- File Size: 14236 KB
- Print Length: 362 pages
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- Publisher: Brynmorgen Press (December 1, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00H22GJB8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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This gorgeous book addresses a huge family of forming techniques, a family that is still under active exploration. These techniques create a wide range of varied forms, and add to the traditional methods of fabrication as much as they draw from them. If you have any experience in metalwork, you'll find plenty to add to your existing skills, and at least as much that your current knowledge can add to what's presented here.
Clear, descriptive photos fill just about every page. These pictures serve three major purposes: they instruct in technique, they show the kinds of results that each technique can create, and they display masterworks that exemplify the finest results experienced crafters can produce - sometimes, all at once. Artisans at every level will find something they can use. Someone with just a hammer and bench block can get great results, as can the maker with access to a powered rolling mill and hydraulic forming press. My one peeve with this book, and it's just a small one, is that Lewton-Brain never specifies the thickness of materials to work with. I know that he encourages direct experience and experimentation, but the beginner might want to know whether to start closer to 24ga or 12ga sheet - it makes a difference.
One thing that makes this book attractive is its emphasis on inexpensive materials, the kind you don't mind making mistakes with. Samples in gold and silver appear, of course, but nearly all of the demonstrations use copper - not just because of cost, but also because of its unique working properties and the many kinds of surfaces it yields. The big appeal, however, is not just the organic beauty of the results, but the sense of play and exploration that pervades this book. I can't think of any other book on any craft that conveys so much pure fun in handling the material.
-- wiredweird
By wiredweird
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Thorough presentation of techniques. Photos and directions are clearer guide to the techniques than the instruction I received in a 3 day workshop taught by a student of the author. In fact a student in the class had a copy of the book which had just been published, and we took turns consulting it, especially the photos. This book is different from the step-by-step books that consist of a certain number of projects resulting in finished pieces of jewelry designed by the author. Foldforming does not lend itself to such an approach, so look elsewhere if that is what you want. The purpose of this book is to allow you to understand the dynamics of foldforming, practice the techniques, quickly master the wide range of folds presented, and use your creative imagination to combine them in unique ways to make jewelry or other objects of your own design.
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