New Edge of the Anvil

The tenet of this book is to provide a tool for artists, blacksmiths, and metalworkers. It tells how to work metal: heating it, cutting it, upsetting it, drawing it out, twisting it, forge welding it, and shaping and assembling it. It tells about metallurgy and tool making, metal finishes and corrosion, sources of information and supplies, and charts and guidelines for many tasks. It explains the process of design, how to use the computer in metal design, how to set up a business, and how to manage it. Providing inspiration for all blacksmiths are portfolios of the wrought iron work of Martin Rose and Samuel Yellin, two of America’s premier metalworkers of the past. To further inspire and to show the new focus of blacksmithing in the metal arts, six contemporary metalworkers show a series of demonstration pieces of their iron work. This 256-page book is bound with an improved binding system (Otabind) that allows the pages to lay flat.