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Tool and die makers are highly skilled crafters working in the manufacturing industries. [a] Tool and die makers work primarily in toolroom environments—sometimes literally in one room but more often in an environment with flexible, semipermeable boundaries from production work. They are skilled artisans (craftspeople) who typically learn ...
Bowl turning. Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a mechanism that can generate a variety of forms. The operator is known as a turner, and the skills needed to use the tools were traditionally known as turnery.
Woodworking. Wooden house with wooden furniture, spinning wheel, loom and various tools. Artists can use woodworking to create delicate sculptures. Woodworking is the skill of making items from wood, and includes cabinetry, furniture making, wood carving, joinery, carpentry, and woodturning.
Pattern (casting) The top and bottom halves of a sand casting mould showing the cavity prepared by patterns. Cores to accommodate holes can be seen in the bottom half of the mould, which is called the drag. The top half of the mould is called the cope. In casting, a pattern is a replica of the object to be cast, used to form the sand mould ...
A wheelwright is a craftsman who builds or repairs wooden wheels. The word is the combination of "wheel" and the word "wright" (which comes from the Old English word " wryhta ", meaning a worker or shaper of wood) as in shipwright and arkwright. [1] This occupational name became the English surname Wright.
Wood carving is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object. The phrase may also refer to the finished product, from individual sculptures to ...
Sand casting. The cope and drag (top and bottom halves, respectively) of a sand mold, with cores in place on the drag. Two sets of castings (bronze and aluminium) from the above sand mold. Sand casting, also known as sand molded casting, is a metal casting process characterized by using sand —known as casting sand —as the mold material.
Method. Thinly-slit wooden pieces are grooved, punched, and mortised, and then fitted individually using a plane, saw, chisel, and other tools to make fine-adjustments. The technique was developed in Japan in the Asuka Era (600-700 AD). [2][1] Kumiko panels slot together and remain in place through pressure alone, and that pressure is achieved ...