[TheForge] Re: Books etc.

[brhlbsmt at mcttelecom.com]

Very good Point Bob, back 15 years ago I figured Centaur Forge was the only blacksmithing supply outfit in the country. When I got a computer 12 years ago and hit "Blacksmith in a search" and got 42 hits of sites I could learn from........ it became another world.

We bought the computer for the kids - and their grades went from C- to A's..... I started to figure there was something to them (being as I hated them back then and resented the wife's demand we spend the money)......now I'm a computer nerd and really find it's relaxing to do work and research on the computer.

On the topic for begginer's books:
1)(New)Edge of the Anvil
2)The Cosira Series (Blacksmith's Craft,Wrought Ironwork
Decorative Ironwork, & Metals for the Engineering Craftsmen)
3)Tucker's Practical Projects for the Blacksmith

For more advanced and power hammer tooling:
1)Blacksmith's manual illistrated by JW Lillico
2)Schmiller's tooling book
3)Dona Meilach's books for a collective of inspirational work
....and if we want to include tapes - Clifton Ralph's five tape series on the power hammer.

Ralph Sproul
Bear Hill Blacksmith
Webster, NH



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> From: schade at acegroup.cc
> Date: 2005/10/29 Sat PM 04:43:21 GMT
> To: Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Books etc.
> 
> I guess your opinion of Alex Bealers book is shaped somewhat by when 
> you first saw it. Bealers book is copyrighted 1969. I got my copy in 
> 1972/73. At that time there was very little printed material on 
> blacksmithing except for a few old horseshoeing/blacksmithing books. It 
> wasn't like today where Norm carries several hundred books in several 
> languages and the internet! who could imagine that back in 1972?
> 
> So I am willing to overlook some of the things Bealer may have glossed 
> over because it was a beginning for me. I still pull his book out and 
> browse thru it now and then. It's too bad that Alex Bealer died so 
> young. I bet he would be surprised to see what his book started.
> 
> Bob
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> 
> On Oct 29, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Dann Johnson wrote:
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> >
> >
> > If  Bealer was a writer first / blacksmith second, so what?   Dann
> >
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