Creative Blacksmithing

ISBN-13: 9781785000331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 112 str.

Peat Oberon

Opis

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. Aimed at blacksmiths, sculptors, metal workers, and farriers, this guide begins with what you need to get started, including equipment and materials. 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.