Blacksmithing & Metal Working Books

This catalog page has books about Blacksmithing, metal working, wrought iron projects, and reference materials.
Our research staff has provided this list of books for anyone interested in the Art of Blacksmithing and are looking for books to further develope their skills and their understanding of the craft. Several books provide step-by-step instructions for setting up a blacksmith shop, including building a coal fired forge and making your own blacksmithing tools. Also included are books for metal art work which was designed and built for medieval architecture.
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• The Complete Modern Blacksmith ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Alexander G. Weygers / Paperback 304 pages / Published March 1997
This excellent book is the combination of this author's origional three books: The Making of Tools, The Modern Blacksmith, and The Recycling, Use and Repair of Tools. All three books contained clearly written step-by-step instructions and hundreds of illustrations and techniques for working iron. This unusual and essential reference would an excellent book for beginning blacksmiths. And the material in this book would help blacksmiths of all experience levels.
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• New Edge of the Anvil: A Resource Book For The Blacksmith
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-Jack Andrews / Paperback 256 pages / Published September 1994
This book is an excellent comprehensive guide for the beginner or a reference for the advanced metalworker. Beginning blacksmiths may consider using this book as one of their essentical tutorial books. Designed as a complete coverage of tools, equipment, with the creative and technical processes. Clearly written with good explanations and excellent pictures, tables, and charts. All you need to pick up a hammer and get hammering. One section includes wonderful pictures of historical ironwork. Also includes very fine B/W photographs of the work of contemporary metalworkers.
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• Blacksmithing Primer: A Course in Basic & Intermediate Blacksmithing
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-Randy McDaniel / Spiral-bound 174 pages / Published February 2002
It details the process of blacksmithing from the start till the end, beginning with the building of your own forge to making tools and even some elaborate door knockers. This book is written in a very easy to understand and easy to read manner. Includes step-by-step illustrations and text for setting up your own shop, forging and heat treating tools, forge welding, forging scrolls & collars, leaves, and heads. Includes plans for building a coal forge and anvil. Describes 20 projects and has more than 400 drawings.
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• Professional Smithing: Traditional Techniques For Decorative Ironwork, Whitesmithing, Hardware, Toolmaking, and Locksmithing
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-Donald Streeter / Paperback 144 pages, reprint edition / Published November 1995
This excellent manual is written by a recognized professional smith, with over 50 years experience, and whose work appears in hundreds of restorations throughout the country. Traditional smithing techniques are presented in clear, step-by-step text and photographs, enabling the reader to produce high-quality, hand-forged small iron work. Including detailed descriptions of work space layout, specialized tools and techniques, whitesmithing, toolmaking, and locksmithing. The author demonstrates special emphasis on the crafting of early high-quality, handforged kitchen utensils, fireplace tools, locks, keys, and decorative ironware. Including hinges, hasps, latches, bolts, hooks, springs, and more. Students and professional blacksmiths will find this manual of great practical value, as will collectors of early American ironwork, owners of colonial houses, historians, preservationists, restorationists, and anyone interested in knowing how these early products were made.
Includes 257 illustrations.
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• The Art of Blacksmithing ~Usually Ships Within 2-3 Days
-Alex W. Bealer / Hardcover 440 pages / Published June 1996
Still a good working and reference book.
This very informative, detailed and illustrated guide to blacksmithing explains how to make all of the things that the blacksmith traditionally creates. Detailed illustrations show how tools, knives, horseshoes, iron grills, rifle barrels, barrel hoops are made by the blacksmith. Explains every step of blacksmithing from smelting the ore to the final product. Explains the tools and techniques used by blacksmiths. Including the blueprints and plans for setting up a shop, and building a forge. Contains over 400 illustrations.
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• Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Percy W. Blandford / Paperback 360 pages, 2nd Edition / Published July 1988
This book shows you how--with some patience and a working knowledge of metals, tools, and techniques blacksmithing can be a rewarding, inexpensive hobby. Using simple instructions and first-rate detailed illustrations Blandford makes it easy for the novice to learn this craft. In addition, offering project variations complex enough to challenge even the experienced blacksmith or metalworker. You'll learn how to:
1. Use forges and anvils, bellows, swage blocks and mandrels, tongs, and a host of other tools
2. Work with sheet alloys, iron and steel, zinc, brass, tin, bronze, lead, aluminum, copper, and precious metals
3. Cut, shape, form, bend, solder, braze, weld, rivet, harden, anneal, flatten, punch, draw, twist split, loop, scroll, saw, shear, file, drill, hollow-out, planish, mold, and cast all types of metals
4. Make chains and hardware such as nails, catches, bolts, handles, hinges, hooks and latches
5. Create tools like punches, spikes, chisels, crowbars, tongs, hammers, sets, fullers, swages, stakes

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• The Blacksmith: Ironworker and Farrier ~Usually Ships Within 2-3 Days
-Aldren A. Watson / Paperback 192 pages / Published June 2000
This well illustrated craft book describes the history, work, tools, and technique of the blacksmith. It pays fine tribute to the skill and ingenuity of this versatile 19th-century American craftsman. The roles of the blacksmith as hardware maker, farrier, and village handyman are vividly portrayed in the lively text and exceptional illustrations. Methods for fullering, upsetting, and welding wrought iron are clearly explained, as well as the construction of latches, ice tongs, chains, and a wealth of iron fittings. Filled with absorbing information, this book's chapters include:
1. "Wrought Iron: Its Properties and Manufacture,"
2. "The Blacksmith Shop and Forge Fire,"
3. "Working at the Forge,"
4. "Hardware and Harness,"
5. "Shoeing a Horse,"
6. "Wagons, Buggies, and Sleds,"
7. "The Blacksmith in His World."

Also includes information for laying out a blacksmith shop and how to set up a blacksmith shop yourself and constructing a leather bellows and forge. Watson's book is an important record and a valuable source for anyone interested in this part of American industry.
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• Decorative Ironwork ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Marian Campbell / Hardcover 128 pages / Published April 1998
This is a comprehensive coverage of the full range of cast and wrought ironwork. This book provides an opportunity for craftsmen, architects, designers, and collectors to gain fresh insights from these examples. The illustrations included are examples from public buildings and parks, churches, bridges, castles, and private homes. Includes a section on ironworking production and techniques, plus lists of museum collections.
Contains 232 illustrations, including 32 plates in full color.
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• The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing ~Usually Ships Within 24 Hours
-Bill Phillips / Paperback 561 pages, 5th Edition / Published June 2001 This book is one of the most comprehensive and complete books on locksmithing and locks available.
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