metal spinning
I'm John Lucas, or at least I play one on TV. I have a lot of info on metal spinning but unfortunately it's all hard copy stuff I've collected. There should be a fair amount of info on the web if you do a search of metal spinning. I haven't done it myself yet. I've been watching and searching for years and will try it some day soon I hope. It doesn't take a lot of tooling, despite what you see in the books and video's. I visited a professional spinner and he used 3 tools for most of the work and one of them was a piece of oak stuck in a piece of thick wall conduit for a handle. The other was a cutoff tool and the last was a roller to roll the edge. He said he does 90 percent of his work with those 3 tools even though he had a shelf full of others. You do need a custom tool rest because you lever the tools against the work and you need pins that fit in the tool rest to do this.
It is a fascinatiing process and is very easy to try. It's quite difficult to master and requires a lot of practice. 2 beginners I talked to said they ruined several pieces before they got the feel for moving the metal properly.
Dave Hout is a very good demonstrator of metal spinning so if you get to see him don't miss it. I'll have to look through my stuff to give you some names and adresses for where I got the info. I do remember that there was a really good article in one of the early American Woodturner issues.