Mario Cesari

a rather heavy ballpoint pen   Describing a rather detailed step by step construction of a ballpoint pen in silver. The signature of the recipient of this gift and the carving of the eagle have been covered with pure gold with the kum-boo technique. Threadings and other small parts are of brass. You will see [...]

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A simple necklace, made of iron wire you just need a mandrel, snippers, round nose and flat nose pliers make a coil around the mandrel (can be iron, wood or any material), don’t need to be precise   cut a series of almost 2 coils (or one and three quarter coil)   with round nose [...]

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Forging is fun. Steel needs to be hot forged but iron can be cold forged, needing only to be annealed when hammering has hardened it. Common nails are made of iron. Sometimes common nails can be  of mild steel, in which case you must anneal them (bringing the steel to red-heath and letting it air-cool) [...]

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Mario Cesari Born in Venezia, Italy, metalworker for thirty-odd years, learning blacksmithing and chasing in London, cuttlefish bone casting and jewel construction back in Venezia, small-scale sand casting and other traditional nepalese techniques in Katmandu. Went to live in the country and learnt forge welding and Damascus steel making, attended seminar on Ancient Etruscan Techniques [...]

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