Meet Master Metalsmith
Michael P. Terragna

Master metalsmith Michael P. Terragna has been working with copper and tin for over thirty-five years. As a sheet metal worker in the early 1970s, Michael spent his spare time teaching himself the tinsmithing trade in his grandmother's basement. It wasn't long before his talent for reproducing historic lighting began attracting attention in his hometown of Glastonbury, Connecticut.

Believing that modern equipment could not accurately reproduce the work of early American tinsmiths, Michael began purchasing antique machinery with money earned from craft shows. Injured on a construction job in 1981, Michael was forced to make a career change and turned his beloved hobby of tinsmithing into his new means of earning a living.

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