(subtitled “Being the Art of Ornamenting Thin Metal with Raised Figures“)
Another book essential for the serious chaser! This one concentrates on details of chasing, tools, working methods. Includes a number of metal working techniques as well, sawing finishing etc. It is 103 pages (and a number of further pages of fascinating advertisements)
File Size: 6.17MB, 103 pages.
A Manual for the Electroplater, giving Modern Methods of Polishing, Plating, Buffing, Oxidizing and Lacquering Metals, for the Progressive Workman.
This 1902 book is a huge volume, 358 pages of solid information (this edition was published…
Subtitled: “A manual for the use of Watchmakers, jewelers and Other Metal Engravers”.
This 182 page book, published in 1898, covers letter engraving in exhaustive and thorough detail. If you are learning engraving this is another essential…
This 1899 book is one of the most important early books on enameling. It is quoted and cited by all its contemporary books and many later books. At 168 pages it is a remarkable book very important for any person interested in enameling. The technical…
This 1895 book is very good. It describes the issues and techniques used in hard (and to some degree in soft) soldering. It is 74 pages of distilled, bright information.
There are a number of mouth driven blowpipe torches described using various…
This 1907 book is 155 pages jammed full of information not found anywhere else in the same way. This third edition seriously updates previous editions of the book as discoveries were being made at the time.
The aim of the book was to provide practical…