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Discover the
Exciting World of Artistic
Blacksmithing
With
The
Fundamentals of Blacksmithing
Ebook
By David Robertson
 
My name is David
Robertson and I have been smithing for
over 20 years now. Whew, time does fly!
I started back in 1987 with no idea of
what I was doing and a need to do
everything I did on a tight budget. I
started as a hobby which grew into a
hobby business, which followed into a
full time business. My smithing was at
the hobby business stage while I was
training as a geological engineer. When
I left school I still needed to pay the
bills and engineering jobs were not just
around the corner so blacksmithing
became full time.
After 20 years I still get a thrill from
taking raw material and transforming it
into something both useful and elegant,
and I expect my work to last long after
I do. Few other mediums are so elegant
and long lasting. Consider this book a
good solid foundation to start to
explore smithing.
I have made lots of mistakes over the
years but have found that a few good
books have helped me along the way. When
I was starting out I would have loved to
find a book like The Fundamentals of
Blacksmithing. I wrote it with the
beginner in mind. It is clearly written
and illustrated for novice blacksmiths.
This is not a series of projects to try
your hand at. It is a series of
techniques that build on each other to
develop your skills as a blacksmith. The
techniques can be incorporated into
larger projects as you master them.
Included are plans for a small coal
forge, and a small gas forge. If you are
truly interested in building a gas forge
I would suggest that you look at my
Gas Forge
Construction dvd . The
video goes into much more detail than
the plans in the book and shows the
step by step process that is involved.
Please be
aware, you use any information in
this book at your own risk!
Smithing itself has inherent risks
with it. Open flame, hot metal, bits
of metal flying around just to name a
few. As we all know, anything
rewarding has a certain amount of risk
to it. Take precautions and you can
develop an excellent hobby.
Smithing has seen a new dawning age in
the past few years. It is a hobby that
both men and women are taking up and
some are turning it into a new career.
It requires a smaller budget to start
than many other pastimes, and can (at
least in the beginning) take up a
smallish amount of space.
The ebook is broken down into chapters
that roughly follow my Basic and
Intermediate Blacksmithing Courses
that I offer at my shop. I do strongly
feel that nothing replaces one on one
instruction in the finer points of
this craft, but if you are looking to
test the waters in this ancient art The Fundamentals of
Blacksmithing is an excellent
place to start.
A sampling of chapters are:
- Safety
- Tools
- Tapering
- Shouldering
- Scrolling
- Drawing out
- Hot Punching
- Forge Welding
- Tool Steel
- Hand Forged Knives
- Heat Treating .....and much
more!
You will learn:
- How to build and maintain a proper
coal fire.
- The basic tools you wil require.
- How to taper, and shoulder.
- How to twist and make scrolls.
- Effective drawing out and hot
cutting.
- Hot through punching, and
splitting.
- How to upset a bar, and make
leaves.
- Forge welding and making tongs.
- How to work with tool steel and
how to make hand forged knives.
- and many other tips and
techniques.
The ebook also discusses elements of
design of a project such as balance,
movement, flow and tension.
With these fundamental techniques you
will save hours of doing it the hard
way, trying to re-invent the wheel.
There are many ways of reaching the
same goal in blacksmithing. Some are
just faster and easier than others.
If you have developed an interest in
blacksmithing and are trying to decide
to jump in or not the book guides you
through shop set up and what to watch
out for and how to save money. One the
great things about blacksmithing is
that you can make many of your own
tools. You reap the benefit of
learning skills when you make a tool
as well as just paying the low cost
for the steel.
All of more difficult projects are
based on these fundamentals. In
process you design your finished piece
on paper and then decide what
techniques you will need for each
element. Develop skill with that
technique on sample pieces then build
your project.
Sounds simple and really it is. The
only catch is that it takes time!
The Fundamentals
of Blacksmithing acts as a
good refresher course for those who
have done some smithing but may have
gotten a bit rusty on some techniques.
Included is a resource section which
will help you locate hard to find
items.
You will find smithing a rewarding and
surprisingly relaxing hobby. I have
had many retired folks take it up as
hobby for the combination of the
physical activity, the rewards of
producing something beautiful and
useful, and it helps to keep the mind
sharp as you are always trying to
figure out the next project.
When you invest in this ebook that
entitles you to free updates. I will
email you when I update the book and
provide you with the new download
link. You only have the one time
investment and a perpetually updated
book. Now thats good value for the
money!
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