Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners: How-To Techniques and Projects: Metalworking Skills, Taking Heats, Cutting Steel on an Anvil, Forging Tools, Making a Forge, and More

The ultimate blacksmithing guide!

• Groundwork technique tutorials required to hot-work steel
• Expert guidance on taking heats, finishes, and cutting steel
• Step-by-step projects for making a tapered bar, a prybar, a spring puller, a ring, and more
• Making a forge or, more economically, buying one, and how to build, maintain, and use a suitable fire
• Detailed guidance on the hearth, safety, tools, clothes, and more

Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners provides thorough and detailed overviews on a variety of tools, techniques, and projects for aspiring blacksmiths.

Inside  this illustrated, linear guide to the blacksmithing process, you'll  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, making a static hearth, using the hammer, cutting  steel on the anvil, and buying a forge, also provided are step-by-step  projects for making useful tools from your forge including a podger and  crowbar, forging a large eye, edge bending, and more. Additionally, this  complete 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, all with easy-to-follow instructions and coordinating, high-quality  photography.

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

"It's  always great to see other blacksmiths sharing the knowledge they've  gathered, and this is another great book to add to anyone's  blacksmithing collection. Lots of beautiful pictures highlight the steps  of the projects, and the techniques shown in the book will let you  branch out into many other projects. There are also plenty of tips that  may surprise even the most seasoned blacksmith. Definitely worth picking  up a copy to add to your collection."
—Ryan Ridgway, Author of The Home Blacksmith