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The Everyday Blacksmith: Learn to Forge 100 Projects You'll Use Every Day
The Everyday Blacksmith is your essential reference for learning how to make items you'll use everyday: 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 basics: 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 are:
How to heat treat high-carbon steels
Methods for making curved bookends
Instructions for creating decorative functional pieces such as a towel rack and napkin rings
How to make unique jewelry and jewelry display items
Ideas for creating basic hardware, including latches and hinges
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 basics: 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 are:
How to heat treat high-carbon steels
Methods for making curved bookends
Instructions for creating decorative functional pieces such as a towel rack and napkin rings
How to make unique jewelry and jewelry display items
Ideas for creating basic hardware, including latches and hinges
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.
160 pages, ebook
Published September 1, 2019
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February 7, 2022
I'm trying to build my first blacksmith shop and thought this book was interesting.
What I liked is a section where techniques are detailed, and a bunch of "recipes" showing you how to make various projects.
I'm only giving it four stars because I think there were not nearly enough projects on blacksmith tools, but it was definitely interesting and I'm glad to have read it.
What I liked is a section where techniques are detailed, and a bunch of "recipes" showing you how to make various projects.
I'm only giving it four stars because I think there were not nearly enough projects on blacksmith tools, but it was definitely interesting and I'm glad to have read it.
June 30, 2020
Excellent projects guide
Has a lot of good projects to build your skills and give you ideas. Some could use more pictures but was able to find YouTube videos to fill in the gaps.
Has a lot of good projects to build your skills and give you ideas. Some could use more pictures but was able to find YouTube videos to fill in the gaps.
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