[TheForge] To Nathan the new guy

Wed Sep 3 23:49:16 EDT 2014

Nathan: it would help if we had an idea of your personal style in this regard.
For example Jerry and I like the old Alexander Weiger book,( recently republished, making 3 little books into one) 
We like it because Weiger was an artist who needed stone carving tools out in the middle of nowhere, and tells how he set up a smithy using found junk on no budget.  We feel "empowered"( damn, i hate that language) by knowing how to start with dirt and end up with a steel tool. That's one possible style of smithing.
Another style might be right for the steam train guys who want to forge the missing parts of a steam locomotive.
That takes a different approach. and so on.
"The Edge of the anvil" by Bealer is a blacksmith classic.
It really depends on what you want to do with it.
Anvilfire.com has a bunch of terse beginner's introduction to BS type articles 
 that aren't gracious perhaps, but cover a lot of ground pretty clearly.
There's a big book list and some reviews too, i think.
Iforgeiron.com is pretty juicy too. And there are others too.
And , of course, here on the web, there is a vast amount of utter bullship.
Still, i wish like hall this wealth of information had been available when i started. I spent 10 years trying to reinvent everything.
Budget matters too.
At the larger blacksmith meets, there are often book sellers  in the tailgate section and  guys selling their own books.

On Sep 3, 2014, at 6:23 PM, Nathan wrote:

Someone had written back and directed me to a couple of good books.  One was, if I recall, a must own.  If anyone has this please resend to me. Thank you.

Nathan

> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 07:38:14 -0500
> From: eforge at centurytel.net
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] To Nathan the new guy
> 
> Nathan,
> 
> I have done a series of articles on homemade anvils in the BAM 
> newsletter over the last year and a half. Some are based on RR track, 
> some on fork lift forks, some start with other large pieces of steel.  
> You can access them at www.bamsite.org
> 
> -- 
> Bob Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, MO
> 
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