[TheForge] Starting up

[Ries Niemi]

There are a fair amount of art blacksmiths in europe. I know of many in 
germany, and italy.
One supplier I am aware of is these guys-

http://www.angele.de/

and a company that sells a lot of the larger stuff is:

http://www.glaser.de/seiten/start.htm

I have found it is quite difficult to find blacksmithing books in 
europe, however- most bookstores tend to only have a few, and then 
usually only pictures of work, not how to.

I would really recommend you get a copy of  alexander weygers book  
"the complete modern blacksmith" as he wrote it based on setting up a 
shop where there were no other smiths or tools available, so it has 
lots of tricks for doing things with scrap and simple tools.

You can get one at 
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=weygers&y=0&x=0
for only about 10 euros or so, plus shipping, and this would be a great 
book to read FIRST, before you spend any other money.

Ries Niemi
Industrial Artist

http://www.RiesNiemi.com