Creative Blacksmithing

Helps you discover the thrill of working with hot metal and creating your own pieces. This book shows you how: with lavish photographs, it captures the excitement of working at the fire and explains the techniques to get you started. Drawing on traditional methods, it encourages you to develop your own style and to design your own tools and creations. Step-by-step instructions to shaping, bending, splitting and drawing down hot metal are given along with advice on traditional methods to fasten metal pieces together. Projects included in this new book are making a hanging basket bracket and a toasting fork. AUTHOR: Peat Oberon is an artist blacksmith who specialises in architectural, sculptural and decorative ironwork. He founded his own school of blacksmithing in the 1990s and now combines his skills as an artist, craftsman and teacher with his life-long passion for working with metal SELLING POINTS: . This practical book shows you how to work with hot metal and create your own pieces of creative blacksmithing . Aimed at blacksmiths, sculptors, metalworkers and farriers . Explains the techniques required to get started . Techniques are given to help create your own designs, in particular leaves and organic forms . Author is an artist blacksmith
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