[MR] Ganoksin to Digitize More Than 40 Rare Historical Metalsmithing Books!

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For all you metalsmiths and jewelers out there...

-- Marcellus

*Subject:* [Ganoksin] Ganoksin to Digitize More Than 40 Rare Historical
Metalsmithing Books!

  *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:* April 26, 2011

*Digital Antiques Books - The Jeweler's History Project

*Ganoksin to digitize more than 40 rare historical metalsmithing
books to be available for download from it's website for $1.35 per book!

http://www.ganoksin.com/gnkurl/dba

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Ganoksin proudly announces a project to digitize *more than* *40 complete
rare antique metalsmithing books*. They will be available as searchable
eBook pdfs for a minimal fee which will go to support the Ganoksin Project.

This project is about revealing their ancient wisdom to the modern
metalsmithing community. This is a partnership project between The Ganoksin
Project and Charles Lewton-Brain.

Over the last three decades we have acquired over 40 rare historical
Metalsmithing books that we will make available to jewelers, goldsmiths and
the metalsmithing community.

These books cover special techniques in depth like chasing, repousse,
engraving, niello making, Japanese chiseling, soldering, construction,
patination and metal coloring,  silversmithing and more. There are many
recipes for alloys and metal surface treatments.

*The manuscripts will be gradually published in a digital format over the
coming months.

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For the first time in history, these ancient metal tricks and recipes will
be made available to the contemporary community of curious artists and
metalsmiths. This information will allow the reader to apply the simple and
ingenious procedures used by the jewelers of the past, long dead masters of
the art of metalsmithing.

Many of the tricks and recipes described will save the maker money, as older
approaches can sometimes replace modern tools.

We invite you to own the entire collection of manuscripts, and benefit from
the ancient wisdom that we are presenting!

Each pdf is a *full digital book* of searchable text and images, with an
easy access through an interactive table of contents. *The cost will be
$1.35* per book for a single user license which allows you to install, read
and print the material on a single computer.

Dr. E. Aspler, the founder of the Ganoksin project said "* I am thrilled to
have Ganoksin act as a virtual custodian for this important part of
metalsmithing history. I am very excited that such an important mass of
information endures and that it will be easily accessible through the
Ganoksin Archive. It was inspirational of Charles Lewton-Brian not to let
these important, relevant texts lie fallow!*"

Charles Lewton-Brain commented "*This project opens an entire world for the
modern maker, is a window on how goldsmiths and makers thought over a
hundred years ago.*"

The first titles which are available for immediate download are

1. *Educational Metalcraft*
by P. Wylie Davidson, 1913 <http://www.ganoksin.com/gnkurl/wylie1913>


2. *Metal-Work, Chasing and Repousse for Home Art Workers*
by Frank G Jackson, 1903 <http://www.ganoksin.com/gnkurl/jackson1903>


3. *Decoration of Metals - Chasing, Repousse and Saw Piercing*
by John Harrison, 1894

<http://www.ganoksin.com/gnkurl/harrison1894>Titles to be made available for
download during May 2011
1. *The Private Book of Useful Alloys & Memoranda* by James E. Collins
2. *Watchmakers' and Jewelers' Practical Receipt Book* - a Workshop
Companion

Please visit *Digital Antiques Books - The Jeweler's History Project
*pages at
http://www.ganoksin.com/gnkurl/dba

For more information about the "The Jeweler's History Project"
please contact: Dr. E. Aspler (Hanuman) service at ganoksin.com.

Dr. E. Aspler (Hanuman)
Owner and founder
The Ganoksin Project
S i n c e 1 9 9 6
Jewelry Manufacturing Methods and Techniques
http://www.ganoksin.com