Metalworking

by Denis Leconte

Site Home : Metalworking


This page has moved! Please make a note of the new URL:
http://www.experiment4.com/metalworking/
You are being redirected, please hold on...


I've always wanted to try metalworking. But the thing is, it looks like you need a lot of tools to do anothing remotely useful, and they are expensive.

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. You know "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 you have to make your patterns in something, and wood (or something soft of the kind) is a good choice.


    copyright 1996-2001 Denis Leconte - last updated: 20010629