Title: The Backyard Blacksmith Pdf
Author: Lorelei Sims
Published Date: 2009-08-01
Page: 174
There is an increasing interest and revival in the art of blacksmithing as a hobby and art, and both men and women are becoming at-home blacksmiths. Blacksmithing is a simple, rewarding craft anyone can enjoy in their backyard or home workshop?even beginners can produce useful and beautiful projects on their first try."The Backyard Blacksmith" shows you how blacksmithing can be easy to learn, and a rewarding hobby (with some patience and a working knowledge of metals, basic tools, and techniques). Through instructions and illustrations, readers will learn to make simple tools and useful items, such as nails, hinges, and handles, and also an interesting mix of artful projects, such letter openers, door knockers and botanical ornaments. Lorelei Sims is a blacksmith and metalworking artist, and the owner of Five Points Blacksmith Shop in Charleston, Illinois. For examples of her work, see her website blacksmithchic.com.
The Backyard Blacksmith shows you how—with some patience and a working knowledge of metals, basic tools, and techniques—blacksmithing can be easy to learn, and a rewarding hobby. Through instructions and illustrations, readers will learn to make simple tools and useful items, such as nails, hinges, and handles, and also an interesting mix of artful projects, such letter openers, door knockers, and botanical ornaments.
Written by an expert in blacksmith and metal artist, this book provides readers with a basic understanding of blacksmithing, including an explanation of tools like an anvil, an anvil stand, hammers, and tongs. Heating techniques, like coal forging and fire tending are explained in detail, along with different types of metal, like wrought iron, cast iron, and steel.
The Backyard Blacksmith walks readers through step-by-step, illustrated projects including hooks, door and gate pulls, wall-mounted hooks, knockers, racks, and more. These expert blacksmithing lessons come to life with full-color photography to illustrate the steps and provide a better understanding of the text. With this book, beginning blacksmiths can learn to turn metal from its raw shape into something useful and beautiful to behold.
This is a good book for the beginning smith This is a good book for the beginning smith. Lorelei Sims presents a good primer for the modern metalworker, from assembling a proper shop with tools from yesterday and today, to material choices, to projects designed to help a smith develop his or her skills. Sims particularly focuses on metal art, and this book is a much-needed entry-level book for that field. While farriers, cutlers, swordsmiths, historical smiths, and general repair smiths will find some help here too, this won't be a be-all end-all source for them. Still - a good read, and a good reference for those who want to shape the black metals.The Backyard Blacksmith shows you how -- with some patience and a working knowledge of metals, basic tools, and techniques -- blacksmithing can be easy to learn, and a rewarding hobby. Through instructions and illustrations, readers will learn to make simple tools and useful items, such as nails, hinges, and handles, and also an interesting mix of artful projects, such letter openers, door knockers and botanical ornaments. Written by an expert in blacksmith and metal artist, this book provides readers with a basic understanding of blacksmithing, including an explanation of tools like an anvil, an anvil stand, hammers, and tongs. Heating techniques like coal forging and fire tending are explained in detail, along with different types of metal like wrought iron, cast iron, and steel. The Backyard Blacksmith walks readers through step-by-step, illustrated projects including hooks, door and gate pulls, wall-mounted hooks, knockers, racks, and more. These expert blacksmithing lessons come to life with full-color photography to illustrate the steps and provide a better understanding of the text. With this book, beginning blacksmiths can learn to turn metal from its raw shape into something useful and beautiful to behold.Great for beginners but don't expect a lot of technical information I have really enjoyed the book, but beware it is really only a supplemental reading and should not be taken as anything like a full course in blacksmithing.First of all, I really enjoy the depth that Lorelei does go into. Most basic terms are covered with a sentence or so worth of explanation and she does a good job assuming you know nothing and teaching you from the ground up. The projects in the back are also great practice for the skills that will help make you proficient with your tools.On the flip side of the coin, I sometimes get annoyed with the lack of explanation. I like to know why, and often times she leaves things with a simple once sentence explanation that tells you what to or not to do, but does not go into detail as to why its good or bad. Maybe a brief explanation is offered, don't burn the metal, you'll ruin it, but often times I'm looking for more. What is happening to the metal that is causing me to ruin it?Also, I'd have preferred projects a little more in the direction I want to take my blacksmithing. Basically, if you want to make garden accessories, dinner bells, that sort of thing, this is perfect, if your goal is knives, swords, armor and the like, then this is simply a good starting place to learn terms and basic techniques.A Great Buy for Any Tinkerer! I bought this as a gift for my dad who likes to dabble in craftsmanship in his spare time. He loved it and said it had a lot of useful, interesting, and unique things within for one to learn, and if the crazy cool stuff he's been making since receiving it has anything to say of it, I have to say this was a great buy!
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