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A complete guide for aspiring blacksmiths that provides thorough and detailed overviews on a variety of tools, techniques, and projects. Follow expert guidance that will walk you through everything you need to know, from insight on safety, taking heats, finishes, cutting steel, and buying a forge, to step-by-step projects for making a tapered bar, prybar, spring puller, and more. What's Inside: An illustrated, linear guide to the blacksmithing process, Topics covering the hearth, safety, tools, clothes, finishes, and more, Groundwork technique tutorials required to hot-work steel, Instructions on how to build, maintain, and use a suitable fire, Step-by-step projects, each producing a useful tool for the workshop, Easy-to-follow instructions with coordinating, high-quality photography