Blacksmithing Basics for the Homestead by Joe DeLaRonde

Easy-to-understand instructions and illustrations on the basics of forging functional yet artistic ironware for the home. Softcover, 135 pages, 8" X 9", ISBN 978-1-58685-706-6.

Through detailed but easy-to-understand instructions, illustrations and photographs, DeLaRonde teaches the basic skills of forging. Here is all of the information you need to create artistic yet functional iron hardware and accoutrements for your home or camp.

 

Projects covered include: pokers, shovels, tongs, hooks, cooking forks, spoons, spatulas, skewers, nails, hinges, latches, awls, screwdrivers, chain, chisels, pry bars, hammers, adzes, axes, and knives.

 

Joe DeLaRonde is known for producing some of the finest knives, tomahawks and axes on the market today. He began his blacksmithing career over 35 years ago as an apprentice under a master German blacksmith. Today DeLaRonde’s work is in use around the world—in the homes and camps of living history enthusiasts, in private collections and in museums in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe.