Metalworking: Old-Fashioned Tools, Materials, and Processes for the Handyman

by Paul N. Hasluck (Editor)

With over 2,000 black-and-white illustrations and clear, practical instructions given by expert handyman and blacksmith Paul N. Hasluck, Metalworking offers everything you need to know to turn a chunk of metal into a useful and well-crafted product.

From building a blast furnace and polishing metals to forging iron and steel and spinning metals on a lathe, this comprehensive guidebook includes the tools, materials, and processes that are fundamental to the art of metalworking. Included here is information on working sheet metals, gold, and silver; building a dynamo and electric motor; making a vertical steam engine; and more!

This ultimate, do-it-yourself guide to metalworking is ideal for all handymen and women, do-it-yourself-types, and industry professionals—amateur and seasoned alike!

768 pages, Paperback

First published February 10, 2011

About the author

Paul Nooncree Hasluck
1854-1931

Reviews

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many interesting projects, drawings and text some of which are still useful. A reprint from a early 20th century book, find it online, it's long out of copyright.

[J. Gowin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a solid introduction to many areas of metalworking which may be of interest to hobbyists. It describes basic techniques, and illustrates several interesting projects. While the age of this book's source material leaves the sections on machining feeling quaint, the only hard criticism that I have is my frustration at how difficult the measured drawings are to read.

[G.L. Francis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my go-to books for both researching how things were made "way back when" (late 1800s to early 1900s) as well as for machining projects in the here & now. A caution, however: many of these techniques/practices were done long before OSHA existed. 'Nuf said.