In 1959, Bill Smith was an apprentice learning how to build the wooden patterns that foundries use to crank out everything from cast-iron cornbread skillets to the steel wheels on U.S. Army tanks.

THIS little book is intended for young pattern-makers, and presents a general survey of the most suitable materials, the special tools, and the fundamental processes of the trade, together with the ...

Boro Foundry cut pattern costs by 50% using fully 3D printed tooling for a complex heritage locomotive casting. STOURBRIDGE, WEST MIDLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM, May 18 ...