Working With Plastics

This is a guide to working with cast acrylics, poured acrylics, plastic laminates, and Corian - materials with which you can create beautifulk and useful objects for the home. The author shows how to design a project in casy acrylic, how to measure and mark the material, how to cut, bore, smooth, bend and even engrave it, and finally how to assemble the parts. Included are plans and step-by-step instructions for building a coffee table, cube table, etagere, wine rack and terrarium. A chapter on poured acrylics explains how to make attractive flower embedments to use as ashtrays and paperweights.