Home Craft Course - Pennsylvania German - Wrought Ironwork - Volume 10

This text contains a simple and concise course on wrought ironwork, including all the fundamental information a novice would need to know about wrought ironworking. It is profusely illustrated and offers helpful tips and hints of much value to the beginner, and makes for a worthy addition to collections of metalwork literature. The chapters of this book include: The Material, The Smithy - Or Blacksmiths Shop, Hand Tools, The Fire, How to Build a Forge Fire, Cutting a Bar, Splitting, Twisting Iron, Cutting Sheet-Iron, Drawing Out, Upsetting, Techniques of Hand Forging, All About Forge Welding, Finishing Wrought Ironwork, etcetera. We are proud to republish this vintage text, now complete with a new introduction on metal work.