Wood Pattern Making

Melting metal isn't difficult. Burn enough fuel fast enough, and you can melt metal. What is difficult is making a useful casting. You need to make a wooden model that can be used to make an impression in the sand into which the metal can flow and cool. Fabricating that model, the pattern, is an art and science. Here you get the secrets.

You get two parts; bench work and lathe work. In the first few chapters you get basic information on precision woodworking, but then it gets useful. Instead of building an end table, you'll learn how to build patterns so that you can cast a surface plate, clamp, link, bracket, pedestal, pawl, lathe-leg, bell-crank, tool-rest slide, steady rest, tailstock, hopper, gear case, cylinder head, starwasher, lever, rammer head, carburetor connector, glue-pot, water jacket, piston, handwheel, flywheel and more. And as you go along you are shown how to make the necessary cores, and the secrets that allow you to pour complex castings relatively easily.

You get dimensioned drawings, demonstrations of how the mold is rammed up, how to turn the cylinders needed in a wood lathe, and much more. It's all heavily illustrated. There are many pattern books out there, most of so-so quality. This is one of the very best, and from it you can produce valuable castings for your lathe and model engine, instead of some huge globe valve for an oil pipeline.