BLACKSMITHING: A Guide to Practical Metalworking, Tools, and Techniques

Discover key blacksmithing techniques, including planishing, punching, annealing, upsetting, drawing, scrolling, tapering, and quenching. Offers step by step guidance on how to handcraft seven artifacts, from making a simple metal punch to more complicated tools, like a pair of flat-bit tons and a utility knife with carved leather handle. Fully illustrated in color.