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# The Complete Modern Blacksmith

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Teach yourself the lost arts of blacksmithing, tool design, and tool repair. Design, forge, and fix your own tools, hardware, and household accessories with master craftsman and teacher Alexander G. Weygers. The Complete Modern Blacksmith contains clear, step-by-step instructions and hundreds of the author’s own detailed drawings, bringing scores of time-honored techniques to modern artisans – experienced craftsmen and beginners alike. This unique resource brings together three popular but long-out-of-print classics: • The Modern Blacksmith, which covers everything from developing the correct hammer and body motions for forging and creating tools such as pliers, shovels, and hinges. • The Recycling, Use, and Repair of Tools, which stresses the reuse of old materials, featuring easy-to-follow processes. • The Making of Tools, which explores how to design, sharpen, and temper whichever tool you need, using only basic shop equipment and scrap steel. A truly invaluable resource, The Complete Modern Blacksmith is an essential volume in any craftman's library.

Review: Great book - Maybe I am Biased because ""the modern blacksmith" was the first book I read on blacksmithing almost 20 years ago. But I really liked it and I think there are things in this book that you can't learn anywhere else. I have or have read ALL of the popular books on blacksmithing and this is still one of my favorites, certainly my favorite beginner-intermediate one. It really stands out from the crowd of generic beginner books. To set the record straight, this takes "the modern blacksmith" and adds a couple few small books to it, content about making scissors (not as easy as you would think), woodworking tools, amateur machining, and little giant power hammers. This book is profusely illustrated, great for the visual learner. I found the illustrations to be clear to follow and aesthetically pleasing. Especially when you consider that the author/illustrator was practically blind, it is kind of amazing. If your into salvaging things from the scrap yard, this is for you, I think the world could use a little more Red Greening up anyways.
Review: excellent book - I bought this book for less than half what I could find it for in Oz. The book is written well, and assumes some knowledge in the reader's part and focuses on technique and function, rather than basic skills... however that being said there is enough to get someone started who has rudimentary skills or aptitude. There is some repetition since the book is the combination of three seperate books, but that is not a problem when reading the material. There is excellent material on recycling, and reuse of raw and salvaged materials, and the notes concerning the manufacture of tools, with small notes concerning how their use influences their manufacture is knowledge worth having. In all, a worthwhile read/ purchase for anyone interested in the art/skill of working with steel.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #179,768 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #58 in Metal Work (Books) #259 in Industrial Manufacturing Systems |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 492 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book
*by L***N on February 23, 2009*

Maybe I am Biased because ""the modern blacksmith" was the first book I read on blacksmithing almost 20 years ago. But I really liked it and I think there are things in this book that you can't learn anywhere else. I have or have read ALL of the popular books on blacksmithing and this is still one of my favorites, certainly my favorite beginner-intermediate one. It really stands out from the crowd of generic beginner books. To set the record straight, this takes "the modern blacksmith" and adds a couple few small books to it, content about making scissors (not as easy as you would think), woodworking tools, amateur machining, and little giant power hammers. This book is profusely illustrated, great for the visual learner. I found the illustrations to be clear to follow and aesthetically pleasing. Especially when you consider that the author/illustrator was practically blind, it is kind of amazing. If your into salvaging things from the scrap yard, this is for you, I think the world could use a little more Red Greening up anyways.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ excellent book
*by M***W on October 1, 2007*

I bought this book for less than half what I could find it for in Oz. The book is written well, and assumes some knowledge in the reader's part and focuses on technique and function, rather than basic skills... however that being said there is enough to get someone started who has rudimentary skills or aptitude. There is some repetition since the book is the combination of three seperate books, but that is not a problem when reading the material. There is excellent material on recycling, and reuse of raw and salvaged materials, and the notes concerning the manufacture of tools, with small notes concerning how their use influences their manufacture is knowledge worth having. In all, a worthwhile read/ purchase for anyone interested in the art/skill of working with steel.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Good but Dated
*by L***T on June 22, 2017*

The projects are still mostly useful, the drawings are excellent, and the explanations clear and understandable. The techniques are a pretty good selection, slightly limited and expanded by the author's preferences. For example, some of the tong-making includes machining steps, where the blacksmith might normally use hot working instead. The author includes a description of how to make the machine tool, though, which is beyond the usual blacksmithing text's scope. Because of the age of the books, some of the advice isn't as useful (e.g., many cheap files are now surface-hardened mild steel, so files are not always a good source of material when tool steel is wanted). Treat this as a nice historical record of how things were at the time, and know that you'll have to search out your own information, which is fortunately much easier now than when Weygers was writing. I wouldn't want it to be the only book I'm using for teaching myself blacksmithing, but it's a very good second book.

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