Beginning Blacksmithing: One Mississippi Journeyman's View
430 pages
A basic treatment of the Blacksmith's Craft
Soft bound
Hand stitched
Heavily illustrated with drawings
$ 28.00 + shipping
How to Make A Blacksmith's Bellows
28 pages
Soft bound
Heavily illustrated
Tells how to make a leather, two lung bellows.
$ 5.00 + shipping
How to Make Chain Mail
32 pages
Soft bound
Heavily illustrated
This is a beginners book and tells how to "weave" iron links into mail.
$ 5.00 + shipping
Quest For The Indian Trade Gun
270 pages
Soft bound
Hand stitched
This book is a study of twenty Indian Trade guns of the 1720 era that were recovered from Indian campsites in Mississippi. Acid etchings were conducted on samples extracted from the very rusted gun barrel fragments to determine how the barrels were forged by French and English gun barrel blacksmiths.
$21.00 + shipping.
Expose' of Repousse'
60 pages
Soft bound
This book is an introduction to the process of working sheet metal in the repousse' process. How to fabricate "turkey bells" of the type the Spaniards brought into the South Eastern U.S. with the DeSoto expedition of the year 1539 is presented along with other sheet metal working techniques.
$ 10.00 + shipping
How to Forge Weld On A Blacksmith's Anvil For Those Who Have Diligently Tried and Failed
52 pages
Soft bound
This book tells how to forge weld on an anvil by using traditional Blacksmithing craft techniques.