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“Spinning" calls up images of ladies in long dresses sitting at their wheels and turning out wool or cloth. Tom Faust of Amissville is not a lady and he doesn’t use a wheel but he spins nonetheless.
Faust spins pewter. Instead of bolts of material, he makes delicate cups, bowls, plates and other utensils of the gleaming gray metal.
Tom Faust looks more like a salty old sea captain than a craftsman. His weathered hands seem suited to holding the wheel and hauling in rope instead of working with delicate pewter. In Faust’s case, appearances aren’t deceiving. His life centered around the sea for years before he became a pewter spinner.
Faust was an engineer on the world’s first sea-going hydrofoil, an ocean vessel that travelled at speeds up to 60 knots. He served in the Merchant Marine and was a representative for the Commerce Department’s Maritime Service.
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