Author(s): Lisa Slovis Mandel

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This is the only comprehensive guide to working with this ideal medium for the home metal smith. Both beginners and intermediates will embrace the valuable information as well as the beautiful design and photography. Included are 15 projects, from a basic bowl and ladle to a teapot, along with a gallery of outstanding work for inspiration. Pewter - affordable, easy to work with and suitable for making all kinds of practical and decorative objects - is the ideal medium for the home metal smith. This is the only comprehensive guide to working it, and both beginners and intermediates will embrace its valuable information as well as its beautiful design and photography. Respected metalworker Lisa Slovis Mandel teaches readers a variety of fundamental and more advanced techniques, from fusing, soldering and casting, to forming shapes with a hydraulic press. Included are 15 projects, from a basic bowl and ladle to a teapot, along with a gallery of outstanding work for inspiration.

About the author:
Lisa Slovis Mandel is an award-winning metal smith, whose many honours include the California Metals Guild Award and whose work is featured in leading galleries across the United States. She has taught and lectured at several colleges and is the US scholarship chairperson for the Women's Jewelry Association.