Are you planning on starting blacksmithing and don’t know where to begin? Are you a more advanced smith looking for ideas, inspiration or wanting to learn new blacksmithing skills? If you are searching for the best blacksmithing books or blacksmithing videos available, you have come to the right place! Looking to learn to blacksmith? Artisan Ideas has the book for you! Already an experienced smith? Want to add some new blacksmithing skills to your skill set? We’ve got you covered! Whether it’s blacksmithing for beginners or pros, we have interesting books and DVDs for you.
Explore our famous Artisan Ideas online bookstore. It features a large selection of books and DVDs. Subjects include anvils, anvil tools, forges, forge welding, chasing, damascus steel, and much more. Artisan Ideas also has many books and DVDs with interesting – and fun – blacksmithing projects, at all levels.
Just starting blacksmithing? Learn to blacksmith with Randy McDaniel’s great blacksmithing for beginners book – A Blacksmithing Primer. Then practice important blacksmithing skills you will learn from Mark Aspery’s books on leafwork and traditional joinery. Francis Whitaker, Max Metzger and other great artist blacksmith masters will also teach you the secrets of their craft through their classic books.
Are you interested in forging animals or perhaps a human hand or head? Or maybe perfecting metal-moving techniques, or mastering chasing and repousse? Artisan Ideas has what you need. Our collection is for blacksmiths of all skill levels. There’s something valuable here for everyone.
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Creating Steel Jewelry: Etching, Fusing, Keum Boo, Enameling, Stainless and More, by Bette Barnett
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A Blacksmithing Primer: A Course in Basic and Intermediate Blacksmithing by Randy McDaniel
0A Blacksmithing Primer is a critically acclaimed book that has sold over 35,000 copies and has helped tens of thousands of smiths all over the world to learn and to improve their craft. It is a must-have for anyone wielding a hammer to shape hot metal. Randy McDaniel wrote this book for beginner level and also intermediate level blacksmiths. It serves as both an excellent introduction to the craft and a valuable resource for advancing your knowledge, honing your skills, and expanding your vision in the art of blacksmithing.
Hardcover, 174 pages, over 400 drawings.
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Antique Locks and Keys: Their History, Uses and Mechanisms
02024 GOLD MEDAL WINNER IN HOBBIES AND CRAFTS – INDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHERS 2024 BOOK AWARDS CONTEST!!
Antique Locks and Keys covers the history of locks and keys, how their mechanisms developed over the centuries, and how each major art period affected their shape and decoration. Not only are there over one-thousand stunning high-resolution photos of European locks and keys from Roman times through the Industrial Revolution, all with dates, dimensions, and provenance, but the detailed photos and the author’s notes also allow us to examine and understand the workings of the locks’ internal mechanisms.
Hardcover, 290 pages, over 1,000 high-quality color photos, 12-1/4-in. x 9-1/4-in.
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Secrets of the Forge: Beginning and Intermediate Projects for Blacksmiths
0This large 224-page hardcover book contains 48 different blacksmithing projects.The individual steps of each job are clearly illustrated with high quality close-up color photos.
Hardcover, 225 pages, over 800 high-quality color photos, 9-½-inches x 11-¼-inches.
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The Blacksmith’s Project Book: Intermediate and Advanced Projects from European Masters
0Hardcover, 248 pages, over 900 color photos.
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The New Spruce Forge Manual of Locksmithing: A Blacksmith’s Guide to Simple Lock Mechanisms (Revised and Expanded)
2Silver Medal Winner in the HOBBY and CRAFT BOOKS category, 2023 IBPA Book Awards.
Hardcover, 304 pages, full color photos and illustrations.
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Secrets of the Forge plus The Blacksmith’s Project Book (Two Book Set)
0Two hardcover books, 500+ pages and 1700 color photos combined
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Locks and Keys throughout the Ages
0In this fascinating book, author Vincent Eras brings us on a grand tour of the development of locks from pre-historic to modern times and he also explains to us, in words and illustrations, how their mechanisms work.
Hardcover, 186 pages, over 280 b/w photos and designs
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A Blacksmith’s Sketchbook by Steve Alling
0This is a great book full of sketches, which teach, guide and inspire! Hardcover, 196 pages, 200 Illustrations
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Mark Aspery 3 Vol Set: Mastering the Fundamentals of Blacksmithing, Leafwork, and Traditional Joinery
0This three volume set by Mark Aspery contains all the books in the Skills of a Blacksmith series. With over three decades of professional forging experience, Mark Aspery has emerged as a highly respected teacher in the craft. Reading and practicing the skills, techniques and advice presented in these three volumes, will undoubtedly increase your blacksmithing skills and knowledge exponetially.
3 Hardcover books, over 1000 pages and 4000 photos combined!
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Metalles: Hans-Ueli Baumgartner, Blacksmith and Metal Designer
0Hans-Ueli Baumgartner is one of Switzerland’s leading metal designers. In this book, he presents the vast range covered by his past projects and works. Beyond that, he also reveals the thoughts that move him in the creative process, and speaks of the inspiration he has drawn from metalworking colleagues and partners in other trades.
This book offers more than a look inside his workshop in Beckenried. It also grants insights into the finding of form, the realization of ironwork and blacksmith art.
Hardcover, 304 pages, 700 photographs in color and b/w, sketches and drawings