The Art of BlacksmithingWith more than 500 illustrations, this book is perfect for craftsmen who want to set up a blacksmith shop, and for lovers of history and craft alike. This book describes and illustrates the equipment and techniques developed in more than six thousand years of working iron by hand.Indeed, this unique book covers every aspect of a fascinating and little-known art, the fundamental craft on which the civilization of the Iron Age was built. |
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½ inch 4-inch thick andiron anvil face armor barrel bellows bending blacksmith blade blister steel blows bolt boss bottom bradded brought to welding century charcoal cherry red chisel coal cold chisel corner curved decorative diameter drawn dressed drill edge equipment fastened fire flat bar flattened flintlock forge fork formed frizzen fuller halberds handle hardening hardie hole heavy Hephaestus hinge horn hot iron inserted ironwork jaws legs light hammer metal mild steel modern molded nails orange-red pein piece of iron pivot placed plate pritchel hole punched quatrefoil right angle ring round Samuel Yellin scarfed screw scroll set hammer shank shape shoulder side slack tub smith socket split square strap surface swage swage block swords tang taper techniques tempered tenon thin tire tongs trip-hammers twisted upset usually vise Voulges welding heat Wootz steel wrought iron