[TheForge] CoSIRA, RDC, Countryside Agency Blacksmithing Books

Tue Apr 13 16:13:00 2004

Was anyone able to down load and see this books?  I tried the first 
one,  but none of the 5  pdf files  would open.

My acrobat 6.0 apparenlty does not like the down loads.  I get an error 
message.

Dann Johnson

At 12:18 PM 4/13/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Sorry if the below information has already been posted to "theforge." It 
>turns
>out that the Countryside Agency has made several of the popular
>blacksmithing books from England available for free download. The URL for
>the books available is listed below:
>www.countryside.gov.uk/NewEnterprise/Economies/craftpublications.asp
>The books available for download are: Blacksmith's Craft, The Blacksmith
>Manual Illustrated, Wrought Ironwork, Catalogue of Drawings for Wrought
>Ironwork (also the catalogues for Gates, and Weathervanes), Decorative
>Ironwork, and Metals for Engineering Craftsmen. Plus a few other titles such
>as Wheel Making, and Thatching.
>You'll need Adobe Reader to make the downloads. The smaller books like the
>Blacksmith's Craft can be configured to print two pages per sheet.
>While these are all great books and very popular, I've always thought they
>were fairly pricey--but now for FREE!
>I'd appreciate it if someone could post this to "anvilfire.com", I didn't 
>see how
>to do it.  Thanks.
>
>Norm Larson
>
>
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