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Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking, 2E

Percy W. Blandford

A complete guide to tricks of the trade - from the basics on metals, alloys, and the metalworking process to projects you can make! Using simple instruction and first-rate, detailed illustrations, this book 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. It shows how to work with sheet alloys, iron and steel, zinc, brass, tin, bronze, lead, aluminum, copper, and precious metals. Then is shows how to cut , shape, form, bend, solder, braze, weld, rivet, harden, anneal, flatten, punch, draw, twist split, loop, scroll, saw, shear, file, drill, hollowout, planish, mold, and cast all types of metal.

360 pages. 7-1/4 x 9. B&W line drawings & photos throughout.
Soft cover. © 1988. ISBN: 0830628940.
Order Number: VAP904. Price: $24.95

 
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