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This concise guide outlines the potential for creating markets and outlets for the enormous variety of items offered by cost casting. It details tried and tested advice for making, marketing and selling giftware and other decorative products which can be produced easily and at little cost.

The new edition of Antique Trader Tools Price Guide takes its role seriously as the only significant guide of its kind on the market. International tool authority Clarence Blanchard has assembled the definitive guide showcasing 700 large color photos and 2,000 listings of tools from the late 18th century through the middle of the 20th century, with actual prices from recent tool auctions. Among a myriad of other items, the guide features braces, bits, drills, edged tools, hammers, levels, machin...

The finer points of beer advertising appear with over 500 color photographs of the many sharp or pointed objects associated with beer. Here are beer promoting knives, letter openers, ice picks, scrapers, tongs, forks, cigar and box cutters, scissors, writing instruments, screwdrivers, nail clippers, toothpicks, can openers, fishing lures, sewing kits, combs, golf tees, and much more. Informative and truly entertaining, this book is peppered with beerbits, bizbits, and bullbits, information about...

Step-by-step instructions show woodturners how to make small decorative magnets, bolo tie slides with matching earrings, switch knobs that attach to lamps, and handy little brushes. Dick illustrates techniques for holding your work piece, the use of concentric and offset inlays, and how to add embellishments like beads, contours, chatterwork, and captive rings. These are small projects that are big on fun and flair.

Complete update of this classic book, with an expanded section on jigs, from UK author Anthony Bailey. It includes eight revised and updated projects, as well as eight brand-new projects including bedside table, stool, flat-screen TV unit and circular mirror frame. Suitable for complete beginners and shows how to get the best out of their router. Bestseller and woodworking classic Routing for Beginners is a complete guide to making the most from the most versatile of power tools - the router. Th...

Provides a broad, thorough exposure to practical electronics, enabling the student to make immediate use of electronic circuits and instruments in laboratory and research work. Integrates ideal networks, real devices and their models throughout and shows the application of electronics to engineering and scientific signal-processing problems.

The advancement of modern technology has allowed for impressive developments in manufacturing processes. Out of these developments, 3D printing has emerged as a new method. 3D Printing: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice is a comprehensive reference source for the latest research and advances on 3D printing processes, technologies, and methods. Highlighting emerging perspectives on manufacturing and industrial applications, this book is ideally designed for professionals, practitioners, stu...

Bladesmithing with Murray Carter provides the reader with an in-depth look into traditional Japanese Cutlery forging techniques and their modern applications. A non-stop flow of inquiries to Murray has prompted him to reveal the secret techniques learned during 18 years in Japan, where he lived and worked as a village bladesmith. He now shares this wealth of information for the benefit of the curious reader and Japanese knife enthusiast alike. Owners of nearly 15,000 of Murray's knives will be d...

Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer is your gateway into the exciting world of personal fabrication. The “printer” that you'll build from this book is a personal fabricator capable of creating small parts and other objects from drops of molten plastic. Design a part using a modeling tool such as Google SketchUp. Then, watch while the fabricator head sweeps back and forth and upwards, depositing plastic in all the right places. You can build anything from a replacement tab to hold a bo...