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...
The Fundamentals of Blacksmithing, Ebook in pdf format
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