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

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 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, is a must-have, project-based, skill-building book to equip you with the understanding and knowledge you need to succeed! A complete guide for aspiring blacksmiths that provides thorough and detailed overviews on a variety of tools, techniques, and projects. Follow expert guidance that will walk you through everything you need to know, from insight on safety, taking heats, finishes, cutting steel, and buying a forge, to step-by-step projects for making a tapered bar, prybar, spring puller, and more. What's Inside: An illustrated, linear guide to the blacksmithing process, Topics covering the hearth, safety, tools, clothes, finishes, and more, Groundwork technique tutorials required to hot-work steel, Instructions on how to build, maintain, and use a suitable fire, Step-by-step projects, each producing a useful tool for the workshop, Easy-to-follow instructions with coordinating, high-quality photography Book jacket.