{"id":1213,"date":"2013-10-01T21:44:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T21:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2013-10-02T01:26:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T01:26:20","slug":"creative-metal-forming-author-cynthia-eid-speak-vendor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/metalwerx\/2013\/10\/01\/creative-metal-forming-author-cynthia-eid-speak-vendor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Creative Metal Forming&#8217; Author Cynthia Eid to Speak at Vendor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can you do with a hammer, a stake, and a 256 page, full-color book with lots of ideas? Plenty of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativemetalforming.com\/index.php\/book-description\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Metal Forming<\/a>\u201d&#8212;the title of the long-awaited collaboration between consummate metalsmiths <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiaeid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia Eid<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fluidformsinmetal.com\/artist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Betty Helen Longhi.<\/a><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Creative Metal Forming Book\" alt=\"Creative Metal Forming Book\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/10-13-AllcraftAdCreativeMetalForming.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"315\" \/> <strong><em><\/em><\/strong>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Available at Vendor Day, Oct. 20!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eager followers of the popular artists\/teachers will soon be able to crack open the book, available this month from Tim McCreight\u2019s Brynmorgen Press. An even luckier few will have the chance to get an autographed copy directly from Cindy&#8211;as she is known to her friends and students&#8211; at <a title=\"Metalwerx's Vendor Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/workshop\/230\" target=\"_blank\">Metalwerx\u2019 Vendor Day<\/a>, Oct. 20, 10 am to 4 pm at the Armenian Cultural Center, 47 Nichols street, Watertown, Mass.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cythia Eid Bio Shot\" alt=\"Cythia Eid Bio Shot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/10-13-CMF-Cindy-Bio-with-anticlastic-.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"320\" \/> <strong><em><\/em><\/strong>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Cynthia Eid<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cindy will present an illustrated talk at Vendor Day with video demonstrations from the book, so viewers can get ideas of what to do with the exercises. Cindy also will be at the Allcraft Jewelry supply booth, selling the book, the anticlastic stakes designed by the authors,\u00a0 the LH hammers, designed by\u00a0 Longhi,\u00a0 and the Ultimate Spiculum Hammer, designed by Eid and Longhi, manufactured by Fretz Tools, and sold exclusively through Allcraft.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a nine-year journey since the two artists met in an elevator at a SNAG conference, when each spotted the other\u2019s nametag. The idea for the book was born soon after, but the road to publication was far more involved than for a typical how-to book. Cindy said she and Betty Helen aimed for a \u201cmeticulously detailed\u201d guide that emphasizes \u201cpossibilities, as opposed to projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" alt=\"Cythia Eid Earrings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/10-13.CMF.Night-Lumenars-Cynthia-Eid.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"283\" \/> <em><strong><\/strong><\/em>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Betty Helen Longhi Earrings\" alt=\"Betty Helen Longhi Earrings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/10-13-Betty-Helen-Longhi-earrings.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"425\" \/> <em><strong><\/strong><\/em>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Top, anticlastic &#8216;Night Lumenars&#8217; earrings by Cynthia Eid; bottom, <em><strong>Anticlastic, foldformed earrings by Betty Helen Longhi<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The book covers almost every aspect of metal forming, including synclastic forming, anticlastic raising, spiculums, multi-shells (lentiforms, spheres, and bi-shells), variations on foldforming, and raising and planishing. At the end of each chapter is a \u201cBeyond the Exercises\u201d section to inspire ideas on what one can do with the forms: earrings, sculpture, covered bowls with lids, pitcher handles, and more.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Samples from Creative Metal Forming\" alt=\"Samples from Creative Metal Forming\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/10-13-Eid.CMF.Book.Samples4.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" \/> <em><strong><\/strong><\/em>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Samples from &#8216;Creative Metal Forming.&#8217; Top, synclastic spiral; bottom, synclast with anticlast and torquing.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreative Metal Forming\u201d features a foreword by the anticlastic raising master Michael Good, and an historical perspective\/homage to Heikki Seppa,\u00a0 the Finland-born American artist and author of the classic, \u201cForm Emphasis for Metalsmiths.\u201d Seppa is known for his ground-breaking exploration of shellforming, a term from structural engineers&#8212;shell structures are curved, so that they are both light and strong. \u201cSheet metal forming is shell forming,\u201d Cindy said, but the book goes beyond that to cover all ways to form sheet metal with hammers.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Samples from Creative Metal Forming\" alt=\"Samples from Creative Metal Forming\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/10-13-Eid.CMF.Book.Sample2.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" \/> <em><strong><\/strong><\/em>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>From &#8216;Creative Metal Forming.&#8217; Free-form open-seam spiculum demonstrated by Nancy Linkin.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another chapter, titled \u201cTransitions,\u201d describes what happens when you form combinations, for example, with two synclasts, or anticlast and synclast, giving the piece a unique elegance. \u201cThat\u2019s where it becomes really interesting. It\u2019s where things happen,\u201d Cindy said. Just as interesting to this writer is the chapter devoted to forming a double helix, and instructions on how to properly hold a hammer, use a dapping block, make patterns, modify tools, and refine and finish newly sculpted projects.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Samples from Creative Metal Forming\" alt=\"Samples from Creative Metal Forming\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/10-13-Eid.CMF.Book.Samples.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" \/> <em><strong><\/strong> <\/em>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>From &#8216;Creative Metal Forming.&#8217; Top left, Hyberbolic Paraboloid Extension (HPX); right, Double Helix (Hyperbolic Continuum), both by Michael Good, patinas by Carlton Leavitt. Bottom left: synclasted rectangle.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cindy\u2019s excitement is palpable as she mentions the book is \u201calmost here.\u201d A truck loaded with books is currently traversing the country and headed to the Brynmorgen Press in Brunswick, Maine. \u201cYou\u2019ll be able to order it from all the jewelry tool companies such as Allcraft, Otto Frei, Rio Grande, and places that sell books, like Amazon,\u201d Cindy said. \u201cBut the only way to get an inscribed copy is at Vendor Day, or to buy one from an author.\u201d A bargain at $45, the book lies flat when open and is easily accessible at the bench or propped next to a vise.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Samples from Creative Metal Forming\" alt=\"Samples from Creative Metal Forming\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/10-13-CMFBookSamples3.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" \/> <em><strong><\/strong><\/em>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>From &#8216;Creative Metal Forming.&#8217; Top, synclast to anticlast transition&#8211; axial curve reverses; bottom, straight spiculum with additional forming.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Eid and Betty Helen Longhi are donating a copy of the book and their newest anticlastic stake as part of Metalwerx\u2019s scholarship fundraiser being held at Vendor Day.\u00a0 This fundraiser is a new facet to the highly anticipated annual event.\u00a0 It will be in the form of a silent auction that showcases tools, stones, and other items contributed by participating vendors. Metalwerx periodically offers scholarships made possible by community member donations that honor a committed student with financial assistance toward any workshop or weekly course at the school.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Anticlastic Forming Stake\" alt=\"Anticlastic Forming Stake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/blog\/10-13-CMF-Anticlastic-Stake-large.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"159\" \/> <strong><em><\/em><\/strong>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>The newest Eid\/Longhi Anticlastic Stake is the Mini, which is 3\/8&#8243; thick.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than two dozen providers are participating in the 9th annual Vendor Day, offering metalsmithing tools, precious and semi-precious stones, services and other supplies. Other topics in the day-long lecture series are listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metalwerx.com\/workshop\/230\" target=\"_blank\">Metalwerx&#8217;s website<\/a>. A $6 contribution gets you in the door. Save $1 off admission with the Vendor Day postcard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em>by Yleana Martinez<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can you do with a hammer, a stake, and a 256 page, full-color book with lots of ideas? Plenty of \u201cCreative Metal Forming\u201d&#8212;the title of the long-awaited collaboration between consummate metalsmiths Cynthia Eid and Betty Helen Longhi. 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