How to Weld Metalwork Projects (How To Series) - Softcover

Swift, Penny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0620556900 ISBN 13: 9780620556903

Publisher: PJ's Design Warehouse, 2014

Synopsis

How To Weld Metalwork Projects is a clear, concise and essential book for all metalworking enthusiasts. How To Weld Metalwork Projects is a bright inspirational guide for making metal items and furniture. It has easy to follow step-by-step instructions that will help you tackle welding techniques, even if you have never welded before. Profusely illustrated with more than 350 colour photographs, the book introduces you to different types of metalworking techniques and the best tools and equipment that you can use.There are also helpful hints for cutting and bending metal, and you will see exactly how to make a variety of jigs. The most common finishing techniques and paint finishes that you can use on metal are well illustrated.These include popular contemporary techniques like faux verdigris and fake rust finishes.There are more than 17 different items of varying complexity that you can make just by following the step-by-step projects that are illustrated. All materials and the tools required for each project are listed and explained. Suitable finishes are suggested. If you enjoy making your own designs, you can adapt the different projects to create your very own furniture and stylish accessories.The range of projects includes a table and a chair, candlesticks, lamps, a garden bench, burglar bars and security gates, as well as a handy wine rack, a mirror and an attractive plant stand.The items range from very simple, ideal for the beginner, to relatively difficult.

About this title

About the Author

Penny Swift is a well established writer with loads of writing and editing experience. She 'grew up' on daily and then Sunday newspapers where she worked in the newsroom and women's pages, spent time in many court rooms, and ultimately did a substantial amount of consumer and investigative journalism. The birth of her first child three decades ago lead her to move to magazines where she worked on South Africa's premier mother and child magazine, Living & Loving. As a new home owner she encompassed home-orientated magazines in her full-time job description, namely SA Garden & Home and Your Family. The next step was to try writing books, and she currently has more than 40 published titles under my belt. Most are home-related and DIY orientated, though she has also written two non-fiction horse-related titles. Penny cut her teeth on ebooks in 2009 and has produced a number of her own, as well as ghost writing and/or editing several for other 'authors'. Around the same time she was commissioned to write a number of Further Education & Training (FET) college textbooks for second language English students, mostly on construction and related topics; as well as a number of courses for leading long distances colleges based in Cape Town. While the bulk of the books written by Penny have a strong southern African focus, many have been published internationally. Since 2013 she has shifted her focus to the US market, launching two new titles in her How To Series, and planning several more for 2014. 2013 also marked the publication of her first children's book, Tales of a Toothmouse, which is also available through Amazon.

Edition details

• Publisher: PJ's Design Warehouse
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0620556900
• ISBN 13: 9780620556903
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80