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Just tried my hand at metal spinning of a sort. A friend needed a pewter button so I turned a hard maple mandrel, found a piece of old pewter in a junk store and formed the pewter (about .03 thick) around the mandrel. polished it and cut it off and wala, a button.
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I sure would like to know more about how and if you had taken any pictures.
Arlin
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It can be a dangerous endeavor, with disks flying about your shop, dont stand in plane with the stock.
Be careful.
Ag
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I’ve done a couple of pieces, 1 aluminum and a few copper pieces, I tuned the moulds from Maple and forced/spun them over that, here’s a link to a post on SMC with a couple of pictures of pieces I made.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.p...834#post2190834
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