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    Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners
    Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners
    Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners
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    Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners

    By Andrew Pearce

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    A complete blacksmithing guide for metalworkers that provides thorough and detailed overviews on a variety of blacksmithing tools, techniques, and projects. Learn by doing with Home Workshop Blacksmithing as you follow expert guidance that will walk you through everything you need to know. With informative sections on safety, taking heats, finishes, cutting steel, and buying a forge, also provided are step-by-step projects for making a tapered bar, prybar, spring puller, and more. Additionally, this guide features a tutorial for making your own forge and how to build, maintain, and use a suitable fire. The ultimate resource for anyone interested in gaining fundamental metalworking skills, Home Workshop Blacksmithing is a must-have, project-based, skill-building book to equip you with the understanding and knowledge you need to succeed!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFox Chapel Publishing
    Release dateFeb 7, 2023
    ISBN9781637411551
    Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners
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    Andrew Pearce

    Andrew Pearce grew up in Kent, England with motorcycles, cars and farm machinery. After study at the University of Nottingham's School of Agriculture, he worked for several years on a farm in Sussex. During this time, he started writing, first for Power Farming and later for Farmer's Weekly. A former instructor of welding and other practical skills, he currently divides his time between writing and the farm workshop.

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      Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners - Andrew Pearce

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      The Hearth, Tools, and Safety

      The Hearth: A Quick Tour

      Throughout this book, I will be using a traditional blacksmith’s hearth. These hearths come in two basic forms: vertical blast, where air enters below the fire, and back blast, where it enters from behind. The vertical blast option is the simplest to make yourself, but back blast is the most efficient and the easiest to use. In both cases, air reaches the fire through a tuyére, whose name in old French means pipe. In the UK, tuyere is often shortened to tueiron or just tue. While my preferred hearth is the traditional style, beginning blacksmiths might find a propane hearth more approachable. Many versions and sizes of these can be found online.

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      The simplest hearths can be portable, bringing in air from below via a tube and fan; the fan can be handcranked or electric. It’s fairly straightforward to make a very basic hearth that uses a large-diameter truck brake drum to hold the fire. Larger static hearths originally got their air from a set of manual bellows, but those have long since given way to an electric fan. Commercial units draw air into the base of the fire from the back, as that puts air exactly where needed and helps prevent blockage from clinker. In these versions, water cooling extends the tue’s life. The result is a tue that will withstand years of heavyduty use, though a plain, uncooled version is okay in a lightly used hearth.

      You can buy a simple or commercial hearth in kit form—but given the time and inclination, making your own is cheaper. There’s also the middling option: fabricate the frame then buy the fan, tue, and other bits. Here are pictures of both approaches, showing the layout of components. First, let’s look at a commercially made double unit, part of a permanent training setup in a farming college.

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      This is where air enters the hearth. Air comes through underfloor ducting from a central fan. Individual units use a simple manual gate valve to regulate airflow to the fire (arrow).

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      A two-person hearth. This hearth is big enough for two students to use simultaneously. Shop-wide extraction sucks away fumes via the top hood and stack.

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      Keep the tue cool. Around the back of the hearth is an open tank (the bosh), which holds cooling water. As cooling the tue relies on simple thermal circulation—there’s no pump—water lost as steam during use has to be replaced.

      Air comes from an electric-powered centrifugal fan. Housed external to the forge for quieter operation, this delivers air via a lightweight tube. As with the commercial unit, a gate valve alongside the hearth regulates blast intensity. A conventional flue exits outside the

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