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New Edge of the Anvil: A Resource Book for the Blacksmith
List Price: $25.00 Our Price: $18.29 (As of Jun 18, 11:21 PM) Ships FREE from Amazon.com on orders over $25 (details) • This book is on 3 myArmoury member lists Edition: Paperback 29 third-party copies available from: $14.04 (As of Jun 18, 11:21 PM) Other items of interest: • The Art of Blacksmithing • The Complete Modern Blacksmith • A Blacksmithing Primer: A Course in Basic and Intermediate Blacksmithing • The Complete Bladesmith: Forging Your Way To Perfection • The Backyard Blacksmith Product Description: The tenet of this book is provide a tool for artists/blacksmiths and metalworkers. It tells how to work metal: heating it, cutting it, upsetting it, drawing it out, twisting it, forge welding it and shaping and assembling it. It tells about metallurgy and tool making, metal finishes and corrosion, sources of information and supplies, charts and guidelines for many tasks. It explains the process of design, how to use the computer in metal design, how to set up a business and how to manage it. Providing an inspiration for all blacksmiths are portfolios of the wrought iron work of Martin Rose and Samuel Yellin, two of America's premier metalworkers of the past. To further inspire and to show the new focus of blacksmithing in the metal arts, six contemporary metalworkers show a series of demonstration pieces of their iron work. This 256 page book is bound with an improved binding system (Otabind) that allows the pages to lay flat. Product Details/Specifications: Authors: Jack Andrews Recording label: Skipjack Pr Publishers: Skipjack Pr Manufacturer: Skipjack Pr EAN: 9781879535091 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 1879535092 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 256 Publication date: 1994-09 Format: Illustrated, Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Published) Data cached: Jun 18, 2013 11:21 PM (GMT -8 hours) |