[TheForge] Woodworking Tools, forging of

Tue Jan 7 21:34:00 2003

Thanks Stephen...already put dogears on my copy of "Complete Modern
Blacksmithing."  Just looking for another resource.

Paul McComb
Fat Raccoon Forge
London, Ontario
[email protected]

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P. McComb:  Another source of how to in that area is the "Complete
Modern Blacksmith" by Alexander Weygers.  He tells how to make lathe
tools, carving gouges, both large and small, and countless other tools.
As with any book, there are a few shortcomings;  in his description of
making a pair of tin snips, for instance, Alex shows drilling a jillion
holes, knocking out the slug and filing to make the handles, when you
could forge the holes quicker than you can read the directions.  To
quote George Dixon in a review of this book in the Hammer's Blow, "for
better or worse, these books are the reason that the world has another
blacksmith" and I can say the same thing, I bought the separate books as
they were published in the 70's and still refer to them.
Alex used a lot of oil quenched spring steel  to make his tools.
Stephen McGehee
Publisher of
Irony, the sketchbook of an apprentice blacksmith
P. O. Box 9822  Pine Bluff, AR 71611
[email protected]
(870) 540-0142
(479) 643-3299 (farm)

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