Metalworking

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I'd always be tempted to try my hand at a bit of metalworking, but the equipment requirements seemed so daunting. And expensive. It looked like doing anything even remotely useful required a slew of very expensive tools.

And then one day, I was building a wood rack (being an occasional woodworker, I ended up quite logically with a lot of wood. Wood everywhere) using a plan from an old Popular Mechanics, when I saw an ad for Lindsay. "Build a metal shop from scrap". It sounded worth spending a few bucks on, see what it was all about.

So I finished my wood rack and ordered the Gingery books from Lindsay. The idea of building a metal foundry and casting tool parts sounded just too much fun to pass up!

This is the continuing tale of my metalworking adventures. I'll add more as I go.

  • The Gingery Furnace
  • Casting 101

    I haven't given up woodworking. Woodworking is very useful for metalworking, especially casting, because one must make patterns out of something, and wood (or something soft of the kind) is a good choice.

    copyright 1996-2005 Denis Leconte - last updated 06/30/2001

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