Alexander weygers blacksmith shop

  • The guy who wrote this book has set himself up blacksmith operations in 3rd world conditions.
  • Teach yourself the lost arts of blacksmithing, tool design, and tool repair.
  • This hardcover book titled "The Modern Blacksmith" by Alexander George Weygers is a valuable addition to any crafts and hobbies collection.

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    Now you can design, forge, and fix your own tools, hardware and household accessories with master craftsman and teacher Alexander G. Weygers. For the first time ever, Weyger’s three classics, The Making of Tools, The Modern Blacksmith, and The Recycling, Use, and Repair of Tools, have been brought together in The Complete Modern Blacksmith, a book filled with scores of time-honored techniques, clear step-by-step instructions, and hundreds of the author’s detailed drawings.

    The Making of Tools teaches the artist and craftsman how to make exactly the tool he or she needs: how to design, sharpen, and temper them, using only basic shop equipment and scrap steel.  Dozens of tips and techniques are covered, from setting up a beginner’s workshop and learning to temper steel to making simple tools such as screwdrivers and carving, cutting, and sharpening tools.

    The Modern Blacksmith demonstrates, with lucid text and beautifully clear ill

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    The Complete Modern Blacksmith by Alexander G. Weygers

    by Ten Speed Press.

    by Alexander G. Weygers. 300 Pages. Softbound. This delightful book is a step-by-step guide to assembling a complete blacksmith shop for a limited investment, and then putting it to use making the tools you will need to complete other projects. Thoroughly illustrated with superb line drawings by the author, this book begins with an introduction to metallurgy, surveys the tools necessary for a modern shop and then proceeds to detail, in step-by-step fashion, how to make all of the tools necessary for use in the shop including hammers, chisels and even the anvil.

    The balance of the book is devoted to illustrating the various techniques of the experienced smith by detailing the processes for making a number of useful household and shop necessities, such as hinges, woodworking tools, fireplace tools and many more.

    The final section addresses the "recycling & repai

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    The Complete Modern Blacksmith

    July 19, 2021
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