The Blacksmith's Craft
Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas (COSIRA)
The foundational five-part COSIRA series on traditional British smithing, combined here into a single volume. Covers the workshop, tools, joints, fire management, and the basic operations every smith returns to.
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American counterpart to the COSIRA series, written by a Chicago smith. Photographs and drawings show how to build gates, hinges, and decorative panels using only hand tools and the anvil.
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Reference book that sat on the workbench of countless American smiths in the early 1900s. Covers general blacksmithing, rational horseshoeing, wagon making, and dozens of tables and recipes useful in the shop.
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