Blacksmithing and Early Metalworking

Below is our selection of books on blacksmithing and metalworking, including coppersmithing, tinsmithing, and tinsmith's tools. Three of our most popular books on blacksmithing are A Blacksmithing Primer by Randy McDaniel, Practical Blacksmithing by M.T. Richardson and Plain and Ornamental Forging by Ernst Schwarzkopf. Don't miss the Art of Coppersmithing, a perennial best seller!

 

• The American Pewterer

• Antique Iron

• Anvils in America

• Art Forms in the Plant World

• Art of Coppersmithing

• Art of the Knife

• Artist-Blacksmith's Craft &
My Life as an Artist-Blacksmith

• Backyard Blacksmith

• Blacksmithing: Basics for the Homestead

• A Blacksmithing Primer, 2nd Ed.

• A Blacksmithing Primer DVD

• Blacksmithing Projects

• The Blacksmith's Craft

• Blade's Guide to Making Knives

• Chains and Chainmaking

• Collectible Pocket Knives

• Colonial Silversmith

• Colonial Wrought Iron

• Complete Metalsmith

• Decorative Ironwork (A Pictorial Encyclopedia)

• Dover Stamping Co. 1869 Illustrated Catalog

• Early American Copper, Tin and Brass

• From Forge & Anvil

• Gas Burners for Forages, Furnaces, & Kilns

• Golden Age of Ironwork

• Handbook for Ironmongers

• Heritage in Iron

• The Heritage of English Knives

• How to Cast Small Metal and Rubber Parts

• Julius Schramm

• Lives Shaped By Steel

• Making a Copper Weathervane

• Mastering the Fundamentals of Blacksmithing

• Mastering the Fundamentals of Leafwork & Related Tooling

• Metalworking Trades in Early America

• Nailmaking

• New Edge of the Anvil

• Ornamental Ironwork

• Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company's 1900    Centennial Catalog of Tinsmith's Tools and    Machines

• Plain and Ornamental Forging

• Plant and Floral Studies for Artists and Craftspeople

• Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking, 2nd Edition

• Practical Blacksmithing, Part One

• Practical Blacksmithing, Part Two

• Practical Casting

• Professional Smithing

• Rebuilding the Little Giant Power Hammer

• Samuel Yellin: Metalworker

• Shop Drawings for for Blacksmiths

• Steel- Toolmaking Strategies and Techniques before 1870

• The Tinsmith's Helper and Pattern Book

• Treasury of Ornamental Ironwork

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