Tin Can Craft Author:Edwin T. Hamilton A comprehensive how-to guide with over 500 illustrations. Chapters include: the home workshop; tools and equipment; materials; general operations such as tracing & transferring designs, opening cans, scribing and shearing, chiseling, sawing, drilling and riveting, scraping and filing, bending and shaping and drawing; decorating operations such a... more »s planishing, engraving and chasing and embossing, dapping, enameling, painting; soldering; stone setting; plating; cleaning and polishing. That takes about half the book.
The other half is devoted to specific types of projects, including patterns and instructions, for such items as table appointments, jewelry, items for the library, the smoker, the desk, and many more.« less