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Author: Colin Croucher Article source: http://www.articlesmagazine.com/. Used with author's permission.
Today's Metal Craft workers should truly appreciate the artistic skills & techniques used exclusively by the highly skilled metal artisans from almost one hundred years ago.
Decorative metalworking is undergoing a new renaissance as more &
more people become involved in hobby metal craft. The skilful use of simple metal craft hand tools, allows the worker to create fine metal work items.
The casual onlooker of the magnificent ornamental metalwork's found on many historic public buildings in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada & many other countries, would hardly realize the many painstaking weeks or months of work involved in creating these elaborate metal works.
Every day, thousands of people walk straight past the beautifully
crafted iron work, & decorative iron arches in public buildings &
gardens, and not give them a second glance.
But the new age metal-craft worker of today would stop and admire
& appreciate the design & craftsmanship skills required to create
these superb handmade iron & metal-works of yesteryear. It is
a learning experience.
Examples of old bent iron design work can also be used as inspiration for ideas to incorporate into new items made for today's lifestyle which any skilled metal worker of today could reproduce, things such as: garden structures, outdoor garden furniture, household utensils, or high quality items could be produced to sell to customers who are willing to pay the price
for custom made iron & metalwork items.
But first, the metal craft worker needs to re-learn the special old time metal working skills used create these beautiful metal works
Most of this knowledge has been preserved for anyone who wants to
become involved in artistic metal work. An ebook has just been republished which explains in full, the correct way to go about designing genuine reproduction bent ironwork, this ebook will show the novice or advanced metal worker the design concepts, and
how to transfer drawings into real life full size objects.
Ironworkers over a century ago did not have arc welders to join their creations together, instead, they used special methods to bind the intricate metal work together, many of which are still in good repair today, even after one hundred years, such was their skill.
Metal work skills also combined the art of chemical etching of intricate designs onto copper and brass, & special methods of colouring or creating patinas on all kinds of metals for different unique effects.
Sheet metal cross strips and borders were also used for outdoor garden tables and chairs, this exacting skill is explained and described in detail so that the home hobby metal worker can reproduce them.
The special skills explained in the ebook will enable the artistic metal worker to recreate ornamental iron works just like the metal craft masters did over a century ago.
To read the complete story on this intriguing art of decorative metal craft, visit the web site now - http://myhomefoundry.com/metalwork.html The Home Foundry Australia
Publishers of ebooks for the
Hobby Metal Worker
http://www.myhomefoundry.com
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