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indispensable resource for anyone looking to set up their shop at home and begin learning this empowering trade skill.
Well written and beautifully hand illustrated,

Additionally, the final third of the book is a primer on restoring and repairing old tools, something that any smith starting out will appreciate since your budget will likely not support buy thousands of dollars of tools with which to work.


A must have resource guide, A true classic. This book has inspired many of the smiths I know, and inspired me to try a bunch of new techniques and tools at the forge.
Particularly impressive is Weygers' command of both forging techniques as well as woodworking and carving his detailed instructions for forging and finishing your own carving knives is just incredibly cool.
I cannot wait to turn an old leafspring I found in a junkyard into some big gouges and a carving adze.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in blacksmithing, I have made a couple of basic chisels and done riveting based on this work, A great book with outstanding illustrations,

It be nice to have the space for a full shop, A truly unusual and unique resource, this extremely handson book brings together three popular but longoutofprint classics THE MODERN BLACKSMITH THE RECYCLING, USE, AND REPAIR OF TOOLS and THE MAKING OF TOOLS essential for anyone interested in the making, repair, maintenance, or arcana of tools.
An essential volume in any serious craftperson's library, this book covers setting up a smithy anvil, forge, hammer, tongs, and all, and manufacturing everything from stonecarving chisels to decorative wall hooks.
A what an incredible book on how to blacksmith, i got several pieces together to do this but could never get the forge and anvil part worked out.
which means the center piece of any shop, Alexander G. Weygers

was a polymath American artist who is best known as a sculptor, painter, print maker, philosopher, and author.
He was born in Java, Indonesia, to Dutch parents, Gaining his formal education in the Netherlands, Weygers was a practicing engineer when he immigrated to the United States of America at the age ofto take residence in Seattle.
Weygers returned to Java in, and his fiancee, Jacoba Hutter, joined him there from Holland in, They were married in Java, but since she could not adjust to the tropical climate, they emigrated to the United States, where she later died in child birth.
He was devastated by the death of his wife, and decided to abandon engineering for art, He studied at the Chicago Art Institut Alexander G, Weygers was a polymath American artist who is best known as a sculptor, painter, print maker, philosopher, and author.
He was born in Java, Indonesia, to Dutch parents, Gaining his formal education in the Netherlands, Weygers was a practicing engineer when he immigrated to the United States of America at the age ofto take residence in Seattle.
Weygers returned to Java in, and his fiancee, Jacoba Hutter, joined him there from Holland in, They were married in Java, but since she could not adjust to the tropical climate, they emigrated to the United States, where she later died in child birth.
He was devastated by the death of his wife, and decided to abandon engineering for art, He studied at the Chicago Art Institute, where he was taught by the sculptor, Lorado Taft, Following that he studied various aspects of art in the European centers that were renowned for the areas that interested him.
Moving to California in thes, he established a studio in Berkeley and began teaching, InAlexander Weygers was recognized with a solo exhibition at the Cliff Hotel in San Francisco and was featured at the Oakland Art Gallery.
His work was accepted into the San Francisco Art Association SFAA exhibitions ofand, The San Francisco Chronicle which began a discussion of Weygers by stating that they were "never given to idle flattery", stated that "Alexander Weygers as a modern Leonardo da Vinci" and continued, "He commands attention because he is a success by any standard of excellence in half a dozen professions a sculptor of heroic dimensions, an inventor, a marine, mechanical, and aeronautic engineer, an artist with a camera, a designer and illustrator, and a virtuoso practitioner of endgrain half tone wood engraving.
He is also blacksmith, machinist, carpenter, electrician, plumber, toolmaker, and beekeeper, He is further a teacher and a reluctant prophet upon whom the admiring descend, ”Beforehis work was included in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D, C. and was recognized as an artist of national significance, Inhe entered the U, S. Army and his command of Malay, Dutch, Italian, German, and English led to his assignment to the intelligence operations.
He received a patent from the U, S. Patent Office for his "discopter" inand his design has served as the prototype for other similar disk and hovering aircraft that have been developed up to the present day.
During his service in the army he was given a Carmel Valley property where, over several decades, he and his new wife, Marian, would build a retreat with a residence and studios, while he pursued his career teaching at Berkeley.
Besides his artwork in sculpture, painting, photography, and wood engraving he is a published author in as diverse fields as philosophy, blacksmithing, and the creation of tools.
Some of his most popular titles are The Modern Blacksmith, The Making of Tools, and The Recycling, Use, and Repair of Tools, the first is sometimes described as "the bible" of blacksmiths.
All of these have been compiled into a publication released inunder the title, The Complete Modern Blacksmith.
Weygers philosophical view was agnostic and he asserted that "Truth" was the source of lifebeing defined as the forces and concise designs inherent in Nature and her works.
One of his students, Peter B, Partch, states that Weygers equated Nature with the concepts of deity among human cultures, and defined Nature as "the all encompassing truth motivating all universal unseen forces, being self governing and creating rock, plant, and animal evolution bound".
Further, he relates that Weygers advocated that one should "live life to the fullest", by which he meant doing what one desires in life "for the love of it" rather than for fame or financial gain.
Through living simply, and in accordance with his philosophy, each would gain the ultimate freedom possibl sitelink.