Finding your suitable bladesmithing books is not easy. You may need consider between hundred or thousand products from many store. In this article, we make a short list of the best bladesmithing books including detail information and customer reviews. Let’s find out which is your favorite one.
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1. The Master Bladesmith: Advanced Studies in Steel
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This advanced study of steel reveals forging secrets that for centuries have been protected by guilds. Never-before-seen instructions, diagrams and photos explain the tricks behind using Japanese mokume gane, differential heat treating, power hammers, and other techniques to make kukris, wavy blades, spears and swords that bear the master's mark.
2. The Complete Bladesmith: Forging Your Way to Perfection
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Anyone who has ever searched for good custom blades knows that they are hard to find. Stop wasting time looking for that perfect blade and The Complete Bladesmith will show you how to take a bar of steel and forge it into the blade of your dreams. This guide to smithing world-class blades is for the novice and experienced bladesmith alike. With this book you will be able to build your own forge, equip your workshop, choose your materials from the exotic to the mundane, and get to work.
Youll jump at the chance to heat the steel, bending, twisting, folding, cutting, and stretching it. Finally, youll put the perfect grind on the new blade; fit the softest, hardest, or the most exotic wood to the grip; and slip your blade into your handmade sheath.
Whether you want a survival blade, commando dagger, broadsword, tanto, or just a trustworthy utility knife, its all here. Enter the custom-blade world with an edge!make your own!
3. The Backyard Blacksmith
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The Backyard Blacksmith Traditional Techniques for the Modern SmithDescription
The Backyard Blacksmith shows you how -- with some patience and a working knowledge of metals, basic tools, and techniques -- blacksmithing can be easy to learn, and a rewarding hobby. Through instructions and illustrations, readers will learn to make simple tools and useful items, such as nails, hinges, and handles, and also an interesting mix of artful projects, such letter openers, door knockers and botanical ornaments. Written by an expert in blacksmith and metal artist, this book provides readers with a basic understanding of blacksmithing, including an explanation of tools like an anvil, an anvil stand, hammers, and tongs. Heating techniques like coal forging and fire tending are explained in detail, along with different types of metal like wrought iron, cast iron, and steel. The Backyard Blacksmith walks readers through step-by-step, illustrated projects including hooks, door and gate pulls, wall-mounted hooks, knockers, racks, and more. These expert blacksmithing lessons come to life with full-color photography to illustrate the steps and provide a better understanding of the text. With this book, beginning blacksmiths can learn to turn metal from its raw shape into something useful and beautiful to behold.
4. Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop, Revised
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Wayne Goddard s 50 Knife Shop RevisedDescription
Don't spend big bucks on your knife shop! You don't need to spend a fortune to start making fantastic knives. Noted knifemaker Wayne Goddard provides outstanding step-by-step instructions for making your own tools, finding the right steel and forging, grinding and heat-treating knives on a budget. Wonderfully illustrated with full-color photography, Goddard's book guides you through the knifemaking process from start to finish and even includes a budget breakdown showing everything you need is available to bargain prices. Goddard even explains and demonstrates the making of wire Damascus blades with the simplest of tools. Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop is a find companion volume to Goddard's book The Wonder of Knifemaking and provides all the details you need to start making knives on a budget.5. Simple Knifemaking: A Beginners Guide To Building Knives With Basic Tools
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Simple Knifemaking A Beginner s Guide to Building Knives with Basic ToolsDescription
Simple Knife makingWelcome to Simple Knife Making! Im Nick, and Ill be your guide as we jump into some of the basics of making your own knives. Before we get started, heres a little bit about myself and how to get the most out of this book.
I built my first knife over nine years ago. It was crude and extremely ugly, cut and ground from an old rusted butchers knife. That knife was a bit of a stepping stone for me, a pivotal moment in my life. I had always loved the idea of building things with my hands, of creating beautiful and functional works of art.
Yet I always felt as if it was out of my reach. I couldnt afford the right tools or find the right steel. I really felt like I didnt have the right anything. It was at that point I decided to make do with what I had, even though I didnt have any experience. It wasnt a beautiful or graceful start, but it was a start.
Even as I built it, I knew that first knife was poor for many reasons. I had read several books, watched countless videos, watched many great knife makers at work. I had even handled lots of knives.
The problem was that while I knew all these things, I had no idea how to translate that to making a knife. I had never done it before and didnt really know how to put everything I had learned into practice. It wasnt until I had finished that knife that it all clicked, like somebody turning on a light.
The next day I set to work with the same meager set of files, a drill, and an angle grinder. With a better understanding of what I was doing, I built my second knife. This one looked and performed much better than the last one. It was a knife to be proud of. It felt good in the hand and worked well.
After that, I was hooked. Soon I started making more knives, eventually working with stainless steel and having it sent out for heat treating. I began selling my work and kept improving. I had amassed quite a few tools and was all set up to start production. But after a big move, I had to give it up and start over again.
I went back to the basic tools I had started out with and learned how to forge knives using a hammer and anvil. I also began building archery bows and other primitive tools and weapons. I enjoy these simpler things and Its the idea of starting out simple that is the core of this book.
The information in this book is broken up into two different types. The first is mostly words with a smattering of pictures and diagrams. In these, Ill be explaining aspects of making knives in detail as well as giving examples and suggestions not covered in the main build-alongs.
The build-alongs are mostly pictures of the steps Ive taken to build something in particular. If you follow along, you should be able to build something very similar to what Ive done. Its a great way to get started with a first knife or for trying out something you havent done before.
The three main knife builds each go over different knife styles, shapes, handle materials, and tools used. That way you get a good idea of what some of the different methods and styles look like in use so that you can mix and match parts from the different builds when coming up with your own designs or finding what style you like best. You can also take the information from this chapter and the intro sections of each knife build as inspiration for trying out other design options.
There are many ways to make a knife and as many different approaches as there are knife makers. I believe the best way to try something for the first time is in the simplest way possible. In this book, Ill show you how to use inexpensive tools to make a few knives in different styles. While using such tools can make the work more time-consuming and difficult, the reward and lessons learned make it all worth it.
Everyone has to start somewhere. Starting out with a minimal investment can really help you get going quickly and working with basic tools will teach you the fundamentals.
6. Bladesmithing with Murray Carter: Modern Application of Traditional Techniques
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Number of Pages: 160Publisher: Krause Publications
Date of Publication: October 20, 2011
Cover: Softcover
ISBN-10: 1440218382
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Bladesmithing with Murray Carter provides the reader with an in-depth look into traditional Japanese Cutlery forging techniques and their modern applications. A non-stop flow of inquiries to Murray has prompted him to reveal the secret techniques learned during 18 years in Japan, where he lived and worked as a village bladesmith. He now shares this wealth of information for the benefit of the curious reader and Japanese knife enthusiast alike. Owners of nearly 15,000 of Murray's knives will be delighted to see a comprehensive book written by the knives' creator. Features: 250+ dazzling, full-color images, including many by renowned photographer Hiro Soga. Unique and extremely rare insight into the Japanese culture through the (blue) eyes of a Japanese village bladesmith. Detailed explanations of Traditional Japanese Bladesmithing techniques that until now have been cloaked in mystery and myth. Enough detailed information to guide an aspiring bladesmith to become a successful smith in the Japanese style of blade making.7. The Wonder of Knifemaking
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The Wonder of KnifemakingDescription
- Clear and precise answers on every aspect of knifemaking, from selecting steel to heat treating and finishing the blade.
- Tips and tricks for knifemakers of all skill levels.
- Completely revised and updated with more than 11 years of new answers.