Pieh Tool

Lindsay

This small booklet explains how alternators work, shows how to perform some alterations specifically for wind or hydro power production, and even discusses using induction generators. Compact yet very descriptive and excellent illustrations to drive home the concepts. A great start if you plan to use junked alternators or induction motors in your home brew.

Veleanu & Hayes

This noteworthy and exceptionally comprehensive book features edged weapons dating from the Neolithic period to the early 20th century. These fascinating antiques come from all over the globe, including Europe, America, the Middle East, Asia, Japan, and Africa. Detailed descriptions and 897 outstanding color photos help collectors identify and study the characteristics, historical uses, and current values of highly diverse swords and daggers. Among the items showcased are tribal, ceremonial, and presentation edged weapons, Indonesian krises, and Borneo "headhunter" swords. Valuable information is provided about rare artifacts, terminology, and evaluating age and authenticity of the weapons. Novice as well as advanced collectors will find this an indispensable reference.

Walker

Arc Welding presents the fundamentals, skills techniques of this welding process. Presented in 36 easy-to-understand units with numerous illustrations, the approach of this text assists comprehension of material. Write-in design of the facilitates self-paced learning and evaluation of student progress.

Solo

A fabulous resource for black and white ornaments.  Over 800 Art-Nouveau florals, swirls, women, animals, borders, scrolls, wreaths, spots and dingbats, copyright-free.

One of Scmirler's first picture books showing all sorts of work made by the artist blacksmith. The cover photo says it all without a word, a detail of two art smiths assembling a beautiful grill in this Vienna shop. Wall-to-wall photos of work made by these skilled craftsmen fills every page in this book.

Text in German only.  Beautifully photographed examples of Artist-Blacksmiths works that include chandeliers, railings, gates, screens, tables, clock faces, fireplace tools and many, many more.  429 photographs and 345 working drawings.

Discover the Practical Simplicity of Blacksmithing: Setting up your own forge and crafting everyday items is easier than you might think. Charles McRaven, a master blacksmith, guides you step-by-step through the process of building a simple forge from recycled materials, acquiring or crafting the basic tools, and learning the techniques to get you started in blacksmithing. McRaven, who began smithing out of a desire to make his own tools for building and restoring hewn-log homes, demonstrates his simple methods in easy-to-follow photos throughout this book. Working under his tutelage, you'll find yourself encouraged and confident that you, too, can create items of lasting beauty and durability from iron and steel.

Vlach

A guidebook to the beautiful ironwork of historical Charleston created by Philip Simmons (a renowned blacksmith).  Simmons' love for his craft is highly evident in more than 100 photogrpahs.  Descriptions of methods, motifs, and materials used in each item is included.

Kapp & Yoshihara

This book takes the reader into the workshops of four of Japan’s leading sword craftsman. Each craftsman has a different role in the manufacture of a blade. The craft of the Japanese sword is the first book in English devoted entirely to contemporary sword manufacture, and will this be of enormous value to metal artists everywhere, as well as to collectors and students of weaponry.

Sachse

Stuart

Featuring Wrought & Cast Designs

One of the world's greatest collections of architectural ironwork is on display in the five boroughs of New York City. Author and photographer Diana Stuart captures the magnitude and impressive array of historic exterior designs in 400 color photographs, with background information and the location of each piece included in captions.

You will see iron fences, gates, newel posts, balustrades, railings, brackets, lamps, and much more. These stunning artifacts play a major role in the fabric of New York City's streetscape, and artists, designers, and ironworkers will all be inspired by the rich selection of designs found here. This book also serves as an historical record of the amazing wrought ironwork to be found in this amazing outdoor museum -- New York City.

Gingery

This uses no castings. It's a welding project using standard structural steel and common hardware items to build a compact, portable bending brake. It is a 30" brake as detailed, but you can scale it up or down in size within reasonable limits. Make neat bends in 26 gauge steel to form duct, boxes, drawers, belt guards for the machines, etc.

Lewton-Brain

Excellent drawings of many chasing tools as well as fascinating drawings of a long-ago chasing shop depicting what the artisans are doing.

Deas

This book, reprinted from the original 1941 edition, is an important contribution to the history of Southern ironwork. Deas concerns himself with the period from the 1750's through the 1830's. There is a wealth of illustrations for the blacksmith and designer. Most pieces are traced to their earlier sources and then discussed in relation to the influence they may have exerted on later pieces.

Chronicle

Fifty-five fascinating and informative articles on early tools and trades, selected from several thousand published in the journal of the Early American Industries Association over the past 60 years. 

Patterson

Proud Looks and Brave Attire

Of all the riches of the sixteenth-century European nobleman, none spoke more powerfully of his heroism, wealth, and taste than his armor, clothing, and weapons. Drawing on the Victoria and Albert Museum’s popular arms and armor collection—which includes the armor of such notables as Henry IV of France and Philip III of Spain--Angus Patterson looks at the suits designed to kill, protect, and impress. Here are parade suits, lavishly embossed and gilded, decorated with plumes of ostrich feathers, and draped with colorful silk sashes, as well as swords, daggers, pistols, and gunpowder flasks slung from elaborate belts. Paintings, sculpture, and beautiful new photographs—including many close-up details—bring this very particular aspect of Medieval and Renaissance fashion to life.

IND.I.A (Industria Italiano Arteferro)

A photographic collection with relevant technical instructions, this IND.I.A catalog will inspire your own unique wrought iron railings, fences and balconies. IND.I.A., based in Italy, is known as the world leader in the production and distribution of wrought iron components. Their catalogs include over 10,000 different ready to use artistic and forged items, including components for the fence and furniture industries. Their forged pieces have been developed from in-depth studies by architects with a passion for wrought iron. The designs are perfect inspirational tools for creating gates, railings, stairways, grilles, balusters, posts, partitions, window grilles, indoor and outdoor lamps, furniture, pedestrian gates and a great deal more!

Brain Press

30 minutes

DVD

This very early half-hour video serves to introduce fold forming as a system. Made in 1985 (very basic), it covers the fundamental folds of the system, some 8 or so folds. This video was part of the introduction of fold-forming at the Toronto SNAG conference in 1985. Let's put it this way, Charles had a lot more hair when it was made. 

Dunham

Simply defined, lampwork is the craft of shaping glass in a torch flame. In these pages feast your eyes upon creations by nearly a hundred of today's best lampwork artists, from the United States and around the globe. A historical introduction, demonstration sequences by featured artists, and a glossary of lampwork terminology round out this indispensable guide to lampworked glass.

This is a lavishly illustrated showcase edited by Bandhu Dunham, one of the founding members of the modern movement of artistic lampworkers. In ancient times, the glass was melted over the flame of an oil or paraffin lamp, hence the traditional name. In the last 20 years, lampworking has evolved into a thriving branch of the Studio Glass movement. Everything from tiny beads and marbles, to paperweights to huge architectural installations can be and is made using lampwork methods. This "coffee table" book showcases the work of established and emerging artists in the lampwork field, from the United States and around the globe.

Mediaprojet

This first volume of the 2 volumes is a unique publication for its usefulness and ample coverage of this specific kind of work. It is an excellent sourcebook for smiths who are looking for ideas on producing attractive, but not highly detailed or involved gates and railings, of a more more modern look and design. The gates and railings in this first volume can be made by any experienced smith.

The book is imported from Italy and all work shown is Italian. Text is in Italian only but the importance of this book lies in the photos, not the text. If you make wrought iron gates, fences and railings, you'll find this book useful.