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Originally Posted by crystallographic
Most start by buying a "spinning lathe," and probably not an automatic one.
Find some spinning tools.
Then get a half-inch carriage bolt, chuck it up and spin a copper cover over the head of it. Then a brass one. Then a steel one. Then a stainless one.
Then make a simple one-piece wood die, and spin a part from that.
And so on.
It's fun to do brass lamps / or lanterns.
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With the proper tools and a lot of passion to learn, sky is the limit, I just watched a few videos on the subject of metal spinning and I fell in love.
I'm sure it's an art with a huge learning curve but the operators of these lathes make it all look so easy.
I don't have the right tools although I do have a mini metal lathe, maybe I could start with that, or most likely I'm out to lunch thinking that way.
The light fixtures I've been making have mostly been rectangular , making the round pieces by hand takes a ton of hammering, reshaping, heating, hammering again as you can imagine, I think a spinning lathe is definitely in my future,
Thank you for the inspiration.