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We specialize in metal spinning (artistic and industrial), fabrication, metal antique restoration, custom spun parts for automobile and motorcycles, light fixtures, repair, polishing, art and decorative work, metal giftware, hands-on metal spinning workshops, lecturing for groups, organizations, and corporations including on-site demonstrations. Metals spun for consumer and industrial: gold, silver, pewter, platinum, copper, brass, nickel, aluminum, steel, stainless steel, incanel, and titanium.

Metalspinning is an art that was practiced as long ago as four thousand years by the Egyptians to manufacture large copper utensils. Today the trade is known as one of the "Lost Arts". The metal is shaped using the same principle as a potter shaping clay, however the item starts from a flat disc and the spinner uses a tool, held against a fulcrum for support, to shape the metal on a lathe. There may be only twenty five to fifty metalspinners left in the United States (experts in spinning brass, copper, pewter, gold, silver and aluminum) and Jack Davis is one of them. Jack, with fifteen years of experience, was trained by a sixty year old German craftsman who started when he was a boy of twelve years old. Jack has since trained his family who design and make only limited numbers of unique, handcrafted items for your enjoyment.

Jack and his wife Marie can be found at their shop Monday's through Friday's and at certain selected shows or fairs.

Jack is looking for any grants that may be available to assist in keeping this dying craft alive for future generations. His dream is to pass on what he has learned through a series of training programs.

- Rainier Metal Craftsmen