The Everyday Blacksmith is your essential reference for learning
how to make items you'll use everyday: tools, hardware, utensils,
decorative objects, and more. Get great techniques and tips for
hand forging, and discover projects contributed by leading
blacksmiths from around the world, each featuring plenty of
opportunity for variation. Modern smiths can use the first section
of The Everyday Blacksmith as a reference for shop basics: safety
tips, equipment, and techniques like spreading, using a chisel,
twisting, and finishing pieces. These basics are incorporated
through a series of distinctive projects that include a bookmark,
spoon, and leaf fob. The second section of the book features a
diverse array of essential step-by-step blacksmith projects, which
are arranged by category and difficulty. Projects include
accessible techniques, functional designs, and diverse styles.
Among the techniques and projects you'll discover are: How to heat
treat high-carbon steels Methods for making curved bookends
Instructions for creating decorative functional pieces such as a
towel rack and napkin rings How to make unique jewelry and jewelry
display items Ideas for creating basic hardware, including latches
and hinges For centuries, blacksmiths were the craftsmen and
artists who worked society's most important material-iron.
Blacksmiths were not only a fixture in their community, they helped
shape that community through their particular methods of making the
hinges, hooks, brackets, and tools their neighbors used every day.
Blacksmithing today is enjoying a resurgence. No amount of
technical perfection replaces the feeling of picking up a
hand-forged object, knowing that it was shaped by someone's
creativity and physical effort. Celebrate that individuality with
The Everyday Blacksmith.
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