metal-work

Learn how to solder electronic components together and build your own devices.

"[T]his book teaches you the basic equipment you will need, setting up your work area, techniques for beginners with project ideas for practicing your skills, dos and don'ts, and welding safety. If you are inexperienced and want to start out strong--whether working in a home workshop, school workshop, blacksmith shop, or auto shop--this is the perfect reference. The projects illustrate the basic foundation techniques that every welder needs to know, while also helping you tackle problems and fix mistakes as well as shortcuts and level ups. Photographs and illustrations teach welding and clear, concise, easy-to-read text takes all the confusion out of the learning the processes"--Provided by publisher.

This how-to book provides readers with information they need to get started on a career in metalworking. Included are the history and cultural significance of metalworking, metalworking tools and techniques, metalworking career paths, and highlights of successful metalworkers. Step-by-step projects help readers practice metalworking skills, and idea spreads inspire ways to apply what they've learned.

Presents volume four of a five volume set that describes the contributions made by native North, Central, and South American peoples in the area of science and technology, and contains photographs, maps, and illustrations depicting the development of writing, construction of mounds, calendars, base twenty math system, and much more.

Describes the steps in making trumpets, tubas, and other horns, from the mining of the copper ore to the shaping of the finished product.

One hot summer day, a man who makes sculpture out of junk helps a boy create what he sees in his mind's eye.

Presents full-color illustrated instructions for creating twenty projects using metal, foil, and wire.

Learn how to solder electronic components together and build your own devices.