Production Details:

Softback
144pp

Description:

The Complete Blacksmith shows you how - with some patience and a woodworking knowledge of metals, basic tools and techniques - blacksmithing can be easy to learn and a rewarding hobby. Through instructions and illustrations, readers will learn to make simple tools and useful items, such as nails, hinges and handles, as well as an interesting mix of artful projects, such as letter openers, door knockers and botanical ornaments.

Detailed step-by-step full colour exercises teach all the universal skills and techniques used to forge iron; like having a master blacksmith at your side.

Provides the reader with an understanding of the properties and characteristics of forging hot metal, making the craft accessible to those without previous experience.

Over twenty beautiful and functional projects orgainised by level of difficulty allow new blacksmiths to progress at their own pace, and master the skills they learned in earlier chapters.