Customer Reviews

Tin Craft: A Workbook

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I was surprised with this "book". Really its not a book but instruction book with very basic tin work. This is really for a young person who wants to do easy, cheap crafts then a person that wants to learn tinwork as a business. I paid alittle over $7 for this book and I paid too much! Would not recommend this book to a craftperson but for an afterschool program, church group and any other program for children from 10 yo to 17 yo.

while the professional Editorial Review / Book Description indicates otherwise ("venture off to your local grocery store, purchase a six-pack of soda pop, return home, empty the soda pop in the kitchen sink and begin your lifelong obsession") this book has no hints about how to make those cool, colorful crafts that we've seen in import stores using "wonderful colors and shiny surfaces of easily available commercial cans", again quoting the professional book review.

if you really need this, a book with such basic instructions, you will also need an adult to help you open the cans, flatten them, and curl the ends.

what a disappointment!

My grandmother wrote this little instruction book a long time ago. I remember when I was just a child and she taught me both tinwork from tin cans and wood carving too. Her house was filled with her work - it was so beautiful. I still have her old tools.

I just found this book online - didn't realize it was here. She was also a book illustrator for the WPA.

I am gifting my son, her great grandson, with this - and we will commence with her teachings...in her own voice, even though she's long since passed.

Good book, well written, and has a lot of practical information one can use. I will be using much of what I read in my craftwork. I would buy it again, but I have one now.

Its the best tin can book in the whole world and I love it with my hole heart. This book helped me to make different arts out of tin even thought I am a poor crafts person! Its a must have!!!!