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Many machines are available which can perform centrifugal casting, and they are relatively simple to construct. All that is required is an arm which rotates with an adequate amount of centrifugal force, a container on the end of said arm to hold both a mold and the material to be cast into the mold.
A silversmith, or brightsmith, works with silver. [4] A swordsmith is a bladesmith who forges only swords. An arrowsmith is a blacksmith who specialises in forging arrowheads. A tinsmith, tinner, or tinker works with light metal (such as tinware) and can refer to someone who deals in tinware.
A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver. The terms silversmith and goldsmith are not exact synonyms , as the techniques, training, history, and guilds are (or were, at least) largely the same but differed in that the end product may vary greatly (as may the scale of objects created).
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Today the name survives as a brand of Lifetime Brands Inc., as Lifetime bought Kirk-Stieff and other silver brands from Lenox in July 2007. The sale price was 8.775 million USD. The silver is now made in Puerto Rico, but only as Sterling Flatware (unchased). Of the Stieff patterns, only the pattern Stieff Rose is still made, and that is by ...
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This $2.25 million home for sale southeast of Kansas City has a wooden interior that mimics a rustic log cabin, with huge logs lining the walls and support beams resembling the trunk and branches ...
In 1891, at the age of 18, Frank Schofield started an apprenticeship at The Gorham Mfg. Co. in Providence.At Gorham, Schofield learned die-cutting and silversmithing. In some silver biographies, penned by scholarly authors, it has been written that Frank Schofield cut the dies for the original Stieff Rose or, as it was known then, Maryland Rose.