Blacksmithing and metalworking can be easier than you would imagine. This book shows you how - with some patience and a working knowledge of metals, tools, and techniques - blacksmithing can be a rewarding, inexpensive hobby. Using simple instructions and first-rate, detailed illustrations Blandford makes it easy for the novice to learn this craft, while offering project variations complex enough to challenge even the experienced blacksmith or metalworker.
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A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE TRICKS OF THE TRADE--FROM THE BASICS ON METALS, ALLOYS, AND THE METALWORKING PROCESS TO PROJECTS YOU CAN MAKE!
Blacksmithing and metalworking can be easier than you would imagine. This book shows you how--with some patience and a working knowledge of metals, tools, and techniques--blacksmithing can be a rewarding, inexpensive hobby. Using simple instructions and first-rate, detailed illustrations, Blandford makes it easy for the novice to learn this craft, while offering project variations complex enough to challenge even the experienced blacksmith or metalworker. You'll learn how to:
* use forges and anvils, bellows, swage blocks and mandrels, tongs, and a host of other tools
* work with sheet alloys, iron and steel, zinc, brass, tin, bronze, lead, aluminum, copper, and precious metals
* cut, shape, form, bend, solder, braze, weld, rivet, harden, anneal, flatten, punch, draw, twist split, loop, scroll, saw, shear, file, drill, hollow-out, planish, mold, and cast all types of metals
* make chains and hardware such as nails, catches, bolts, handles, hinges, hooks and latches
* create tools like punches, spikes, chisels, crowbars, tongs, hammers, sets, fullers, swages, stakes
* make built-up assemblies
* apply geometry to the construction of trays, funnels, boxes, cylinders, and more!
Percy W. Blandford is an internationally recognized master craftsman. A full-time freelance journalist and Fellow to the Institute of Journalists, he is the author or more than eighty books, including MASTER HANDBOOK OF SHEETMETALWORK...WITH PROJECTS; MAKING KNIVES AND TOOLS; and THE WOODTURNER'S BIBLE.
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Percy W BLANDFORD: Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking,
By Robert E Bogner (Norwood, South Australia, Australia) - See all my reviews
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As a beginner blacksmith with a professional engineering background I bought previously Alexander G Weygers: "The Complete Modern Blacksmith" largely because it had many "excellent" reviews. However, Blandford wins on most points. I have found Blandford very helpful on specific details, on leading me through principles and methods, with much clearer illustations properly referenced in the text, and with a wider scope of nedded information. In contrast Blandford has much better information on welding, and detail on forges and on aprons and is far better indexed. I have learned a lot from both books, but if I had to choose one it would be Blandford.
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General Introduction...Worth Owning,
This review is from: Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking (Paperback)
Percy Blandford writes on a lot of shop craft topics and has clearly thought about them a lot. He writes well. This is a general introduction to metalwork primarily from a smithing perspective...that is, carbon steel work. It touches on other areas but really isn't suitable to the beginning welder, sheetmetal worker, or tool and die hobbiest. It would be best for the person who wants to make historic replica items from a forge who one who wishes to supplement historical replica woodworking with some basic metal work in brass or iron/steel.
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Pretty good,
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But still not as good as Sims "Backyard Blacksmith" A few more pictures would have made this book a five star.
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When Stone Age man first succeeded in separating metal from ore and making something from it, blacksmithing was born. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hardie hole, tue iron, anvil beak, bossing mallet, anvil face, top swage, pritchel hole, scroll iron, welded eye, bottom swage, bottom fuller, swage block, heading tool, tapered punch, heading plate, tapered part, cross peen hammer, leg vise, oxide colors, heavy hammering, flat drill, acid pickle, marline spike, meeting surfaces, rivet set New!
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When Stone Age man first succeeded in separating metal from ore and making something from it, blacksmithing was born. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hardie hole, tue iron, anvil beak, bossing mallet, anvil face, top swage, pritchel hole, scroll iron, welded eye, bottom swage, bottom fuller, swage block, heading tool, tapered punch, heading plate, tapered part, cross peen hammer, leg vise, oxide colors, heavy hammering, flat drill, acid pickle, marline spike, meeting surfaces, rivet set New!
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- Woodturner's Bible by Percy W. Blandford in Back Cover
- Making Knives and Tools by Percy W. Blandford in Back Cover
- Techniques Of Medieval Armour Reproduction: The 14th Century by Brian R. Price in Back Matter
- The Mining Camps Speak: A New Way to Explore the Ghost Towns of the American West by Beth Sagstetter in Back Matter
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