Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners: How-To Techniques and Projects

Description

A complete blacksmithing guide for metalworkers that provides thorough and detailed overviews on a variety of blacksmithing tools, techniques, and projects. Learn by doing with Home Workshop Blacksmithing as you follow expert guidance that will walk you through everything you need to know. With informative sections on safety, taking heats, finishes, cutting steel, and buying a forge, also provided are step-by-step projects for making a tapered bar, prybar, spring puller, and more. Additionally, this guide features a tutorial for making your own forge and how to build, maintain, and use a suitable fire. The ultimate resource for anyone interested in gaining fundamental metalworking skills, Home Workshop Blacksmithing is a must-have, project-based, skill-building book to equip you with the understanding and knowledge you need to succeed.

Andrew Pearce grew up in Kent, England with motorcycles, cars and farm machinery. After study at the University of Nottingham's School of Agriculture, he worked for several years on a farm in Sussex. During this time, he started writing, first for Power Farming and later for Farmer's Weekly.