Pieh Tool

McCreight

This popular volume features detailed illustrations, a complete listing of sources and a compact, no-nonsense style that will let you spend your time working rather than looking for information. 

Shows small scale casting techniques, from cuttlefish to contemporary lost wax casting. It has become the established textbook on the subject in universities and craft programs around the world. A valuable resource for jewelers, modelmakers and sculptors. Its page-at-a-glance format and convenient spiral binding have earned it high praise as a practical studio tool. Now in a new, lay-flat, hardcover binding.

Wakeford

Whether folding a chassis for a piece of equipment, beating or spinning a curved shape, drilling or punching holes or repairing a tank or car panel, the how and the why is simply explained in this comprehensive book. The author, R.E. Wakeford, is an instructor in metalwork and allied crafts and uses his teaching experience to describe clearly all the processes likely to be encountered by the hobbyist of in a model or light engineering workshop.

Price

Over 1000 black & white pictures, many showing the different items Price has made.  The photos provide step-by-step instruction on how the pieces are made.  He covers the selection of metal, taking measurements, decorative techniques, engineering the joints, strapping, mail, padding and hammerwork.  A chapter covers the work of other modern armourers and projects specifically devoted to making a helm, body armour, etc.  He has been doing armouring for almost 20 years, both in the SCA and other medieval re-enactment groups.

Matteazzi

A Photographic Anthology of Inspiration!
Tiziano Matteazzi lives and works in Vicenza, Italy. He learned blacksmithing from his grandfather, father, and uncle. He also studied under the great Tito Perlotto at the School of Wrought Iron (scuola di ferro battuto)at Trissino. This beautiful book, a photographic anthology of Matteazzi's work, shows this artist-blacksmith's range and depth. Like other books on individual artist-blacksmiths, the interest here for other smiths is in seeing just how varied, imaginative, and skilled one person can be. This book is in Italian but it matters very little as the only real text is a short introduction and the captions. This is basically a book of photos.

Arbor

Nearly 100 years ago Henry Mercer began to amass a vast collection of the tools and implements used by Americans before the industrial age. These everyday objects of ordinary people – their axes, sickles, pie plates, and spinning wheels – provide a valuable glimpse into the material culture of the past.

National Ornamental Metal Museum Exhibition, 1999

Decorative arts make more sense in their historical and social settings than they do in the splendid isolation of museum displays. Tom Googerty's peculiar workplace helped shape his art because it largely insulated him from market forces and critics' jibes. His forge shop was not part of the malingering ISR contract labor system, so none of its products were for sale. Since there was no commerce in ISR ironwork it had no ascertainable cash value.

Both literally and figuratively priceless, the products of Googerty's shop were peculiarly pure art, valuable only for the intangible pleasures they gave to those who made and later enjoyed them.

If material conditions affected Googerty's creative output, artistic fashion helped shape his style. His time, place, and taste all put him squarely within the genre called Arts and Crafts. English in origin, Arts and Crafts was less a coherent movement than a set of widely shared attitudes toward art and life. It gained momentum in the late 1880s and quickly spread to the United States.

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Gingery

This book discusses how to work with sheet metal on a limited machinery budget. It covers shop equipment, workbench accessories and tools, basic operations, joining and edging, patterns and layout, fabricating, soldering and welding, and more. 45 line drawings.