Brosmithing: The Beginner's Guide to Blacksmithing

From zero experience to your first knife. Brosmithing by The Skill Junky is a no-nonsense beginner's guide to setting up a forge, learning the core hammer techniques, and making real things out of hot steel.

What's inside

• Part One, Building Your Bro Forge: safety, choosing or building a propane forge, anvils and stands, hammers, tongs and the rest of the kit, shopping lists at three budgets, and Steel 101
• Part Two, Heat, Hammer, and the Core Moves: reading the heat, hammer control, drawing out, tapering, upsetting, bends, twists and scrolls, cutting and punching holes, and finishing
• Part Three, Ten Projects: practice taper, S-hook, wall hook, campfire tent stakes, fire poker, bottle opener, forged leaf, dinner triangle, your own tongs, and a railroad spike knife
• Part Four, Your First Real Knife: design, forging the blade, grinding, heat treating, handles, and sharpening

134 pages · 6 x 9 in · photos and diagrams throughout

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