Creative Blacksmithing

Creative Blacksmithing
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Publisher : Crowood
Total Pages : 230
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781785000348
ISBN-13 : 1785000349
Rating : 4/5 (349 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Creative Blacksmithing by : Peat Oberon

Download or read book Creative Blacksmithing written by Peat Oberon and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the thrill of working with hot metal and creating your own pieces. This book shows you how: with lavish photographs, it captures the excitement of working at the fire and explains the techniques to get you started. Drawing on traditional methods, it encourages you to develop your own style and to design your own tools and creations. Step-by-step instructions to shaping, bending, splitting and drawing down hot metal are given along with advice on traditional methods to fasten metal pieces together. Projects included in this new book are making a hanging basket bracket and a toasting fork. Aimed at blacksmiths, sculptors, metal workers and farriers, Creative Blacksmithing explains the techniques required to get started, how to make your own tools and tongs and how to help create your own designs, in particular leaves and organic forms. Superbly illustrated with 176 colour photographs.


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