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Drawings and photographs illustrate each step of the project, making the techniques simple to understand. He is a pastpresident of snag, and has served on the boards of haystack, the american craft council and the pmc guild. Tim mccreight is obviously a talented craftsman and knows how to manipulate metal. Complete metalsmith by tim mccreight lapidary tool smith. It tells all they need to know, without getting bogged down in details. I found this book because the person from whom i purchased some of the supplies sold tim mccreight s the complete metalsmith, and this larger, professional edition appeared to cover all that material, plus more. See more ideas about knife making, custom knives and knife patterns. Learn how to cut, shape, heat, treat, and finish a.
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