Product Description

This informative and practical book covers a wide range of small scale casting techniques, from cuttlefish to contemporary lost wax casting. It has become the established textbook on the subject in universities and craft programs around the world. Now in a new, lay-flat, hardcover binding.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110382 in Books
• Published on: 1994-09-01
• Released on: 1994-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 153 pages

From the Publisher
This book, now in its 5th printing, has proven itself a valuable resource for jewelers, modelmakers and sculptors. Its page-at-a-glance format and convenient spiral binding have earned it high praise as a practical studio tool.

From the Author
As a teacher, I respect the talent of individual artists and their desire to spend time working rather than reading. I've tried to make this book compact, direct, and friendly. It allows a reader to find a needed bit of information quickly, to instantly assess what tools and supplies are needed, and then get to work.

About the Author
Tim McCreight is a metalsmith, designer, and teacher. He has written over a dozen books on jewelrymaking and design, and teaches workshops internationally.

Customer Reviews

Excellent for begginners in jewelrymaking
The book covers all aspects of casting. I personally enjoyed the drawings, you can follow them along with the text and start making your wax models. If you have read McCreight's book "Complete Metalsmith" you probably tought the book had too information in a page, well in this book you can actually enjoy reading it since it explains in detail the processes withouth craming too much information in just one page. It is an affortable book with excellent technical instructions about the different methods of model making and casting.

Casting Simplified!
McCreight has written another one of his easy-to-read books for readers and would-be practitioners of the metal smith's or jeweler's art.

The book is well written. Once again the spiral bound format makes it easy to use in the shop.

This book is reasonably priced for the amount of information it provides. McCreight can never be blamed for trying to "gouge" the public with his prices.

Interested in casting? This book is a great place to start!

Another of McCeight's winners
Don't let the sub title Studio Reference throw a scare in you. With its lay flat binding and clear and concise steps, you will be using it in the studio as a ready reference book. As somebody who owns and have read over 25 books on casting and foundry work. This book was a light read compared to some it doesn't get bogged down in to much tech for tech sake. If you just want to find out about what it takes to do a little casting or jump in and go all the way this is the one book for you. I own it.