[TheForge] Interesting books from Lee Valley

[Ralph Sproul]

Andy, Lillico is in reprinted form.  I got mine from Norm.

Ralph

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
To: <mspencer at tallships.ca>; "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Interesting books from Lee Valley


> Speaking of books, while in Portland I stopped into Powell's and picked
> up two old blacksmithing volumes, "Plain and Ornamental Forging" by
> Schwarzkopf (1916) and "Blacksmith's Manual Illustrated" by Lillico
> (1960 fourth edition).  Hey, for $10 I couldn't pass them up.  Both are
> full of very good industrial smithing techniques.  Anyone know if they
> are in reprints?
>
> -Andy
>
> Mike Spencer wrote:
> > Lee Valley Tools has an interesting line of books that you may not
> > have noticed.  The (now retired) founder and former CEO works up
> > reprints of old books relating to wood- and metal-work and other
> > trades and crafts.  Sort of his personal enthusiasm.
> >
> > Mechanics & Metalwork
> >
> >    http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=46130&cat=1,46096
> >
> > Classic Reprints
> >
> >    http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=46100&cat=1,46096
> >
> > Links to all the books at Lee Valley
> >
> >    http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&cat=1&p=46096
> >
> > I got _507 Mechanical Movements_ (Harry T. Brown, 1868) for Christmas.
> > Paper but with sturdy binding and sewn signatures.  Lots of pics of
> > things like the Scotch yoke and the ellipse-drawing widget someone
> > here was asking about recently.
> >
> > - Mike
> >
>
> --
>
>
> -Andy V.
>
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