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Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners

How-To Techniques and Projects
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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!

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Pages 80
Publish Date 2023-02-07
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Size 8.5" x 11.0" x 0.0"
Author Andrew Pearce

Basics of the hearth, safety, tools, clothes, and more

This unique, easy-to-follow volume is packed with how-to instructions, techniques, and projects perfect for aspiring blacksmiths everywhere!

Tools of the Trade

Learn which essential tools you'll need and how they’re used, including the anvil, ball-peen hammer, wire brush, vise, chisel hardie, and more.

Heat and Cutting

Learn key blacksmithing skills including how hot to run the fire and how to take heats, remove oxide, and cut steel on the anvil.

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About the Author

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

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