Silver Spinning - Steve Gifford (1979)
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3 жыл бұрынSteve Gifford shows how metal can be formed in round shapes by spinning out of sheet metal.
One of the series of South Yorkshire County Council sponsored films commissioned from Sheffield Independent Film and the Sheffield City Polytechnic to document ‘little mester’ trades. This film was No.6 in the series entitled 'Trades & Crafts'.
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@bigbasil1908 2 жыл бұрын
It's great to see how humans like to problem solve, and come up with all sorts of inventive ways to overcome a problem or puzzle. That form for the silver vase thing is pretty ingenius, with the central bit that comes out so you can remove the 6 outer segments.
@andrewb2475 Жыл бұрын
Between 1980 and 1984 Britain's metalworking industry was decimated, I was an apprentice toolmaker at the time and remember Friday's ITV News would list the companies that went bust that week...........it was the death of engineering and complete f*cking carnage, I'm NOT exaggerating btw!!!
@radboogie Жыл бұрын
Really interesting, I bet spinning is much harder than it looks. And quenching Silver during the annealing process - totally unintuitive when you're used to working with Steel.
@c42cly 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing, I never realised silver was worked like this! I have seen tankards like this, now I can see how they are made. Thanks
@andrewb2475 Жыл бұрын
Sadly I'd guess this guy was 'layed off' probably 1981-82 like tens of thousands of other skilled men..........Northern Britain was no more than industrial ghost cities.
@warrenmartin8146 12 күн бұрын
No, he's still working at the age of 77 and I was his apprentice. We are still hard at it on this same lathe in Sheffield
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