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The Everyday Blacksmith: Learn to forge 55 simple projects you'll use every day, with multiple variations for styles and finishes
The Everyday Blacksmith is your essential reference for learning how to make items you’ll use tools, hardware, utensils, decorative objects, and more. Get great techniques and tips for hand forging, and discover projects contributed by leading blacksmiths from around the world, each featuring plenty of opportunity for variation.
Modern smiths can use the first section of The Everyday Blacksmith as a reference for shop safety tips, equipment , and techniques like spreading, using a chisel, twisting, and finishing pieces. These basics are incorporated through a series of distinctive projects that include a bookmark, spoon, and leaf fob.
The second section of the book features a diverse array of essential step-by-step blacksmith projects , which are arranged by category and difficulty. Projects include accessible techniques, functional designs, and diverse styles .
Among the techniques and projects you’ll discover For centuries, blacksmiths were the craftsmen and artists who worked society's most important material—iron. Blacksmiths were not only a fixture in their community, they helped shape that community through their particular methods of making the hinges, hooks, brackets, and tools their neighbors used every day. Blacksmithing today is enjoying a resurgence. No amount of technical perfection replaces the feeling of picking up a hand-forged object , knowing that it was shaped by someone’s creativity and physical effort. Celebrate that individuality with The Everyday Blacksmith .
Modern smiths can use the first section of The Everyday Blacksmith as a reference for shop safety tips, equipment , and techniques like spreading, using a chisel, twisting, and finishing pieces. These basics are incorporated through a series of distinctive projects that include a bookmark, spoon, and leaf fob.
The second section of the book features a diverse array of essential step-by-step blacksmith projects , which are arranged by category and difficulty. Projects include accessible techniques, functional designs, and diverse styles .
Among the techniques and projects you’ll discover For centuries, blacksmiths were the craftsmen and artists who worked society's most important material—iron. Blacksmiths were not only a fixture in their community, they helped shape that community through their particular methods of making the hinges, hooks, brackets, and tools their neighbors used every day. Blacksmithing today is enjoying a resurgence. No amount of technical perfection replaces the feeling of picking up a hand-forged object , knowing that it was shaped by someone’s creativity and physical effort. Celebrate that individuality with The Everyday Blacksmith .
- GenresNonfiction
160 pages, Paperback
Published September 17, 2019
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July 26, 2022
I borrowed this from the library. I'm looking forward to working through these projects and then doing them over and over to work on each skill. I'm going to have to purchase this one.
November 1, 2025
Loads of interesting ideas both artistic and practical, and a nice sequential development path, project by project.
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