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

Pearce, Andrew

ISBN 10: 1497103118 / ISBN 13: 9781497103115

Edité par Fox Chapel Pub Co Inc, 2023

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128 pages. 11.00x9.00x0.25 inches. In Stock. N° de réf. du vendeur __1497103118

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Titre : Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners: ...

Éditeur : Fox Chapel Pub Co Inc

Date d'édition : 2023

Reliure : Paperback

Etat : Brand New

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Synopsis :

A complete blacksmithing guide for metalworkers!

• Groundwork techniques required to hot-work steel
• Expert guidance on taking heats, finishes, and cutting steel
• Projects for making a tapered bar, a prybar, a spring puller, and more
• Making a forge or, more economically, buying one, and how to build, maintain, and use a suitable fire
• Detailed guidance on safety, tools, clothes, and more

Home Workshop Blacksmithing provides thorough and detailed overviews on a variety of blacksmithing tools, techniques, and projects.

Learn by doing 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.

A project-based, skill-building volume that lays out the groundwork techniques you need to know to hot-work steel, this book features concise text presenting simple blacksmithing topics and techniques, as well as individual projects that will produce useful tools for you to use.

The ultimate resource for anyone interested in gaining fundamental metalworking skills, Home Workshop Blacksmithing is a must-have book to equip you with the understanding and knowledge you need to succeed!

À propos de l?auteur:

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. A former instructor of welding and other practical skills, he currently divides his time between writing and the farm workshop.