J. M. Drew 
Farm Blacksmithing 

This vintage book contains a complete and comprehensive guide to setting up and maintaining a farm workshop. From designing and constructing your workshop to producing useful items and repairing equipment, this book contains everything needed for successful farm blacksmithing. ‘Farm Blacksmithing’ constitutes a timeless recourse that will be of as much utility to modern readers as it was when first published, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: ‘Furnishing the Shop’, ‘Iron and Steel’, ‘Steel’, ‘Practice Work’, ‘Making a Door Hook’, ‘Making a Staple’, ‘Making Chain’, ‘Making a Ring’, ‘Making a Chain Hook’, ‘Making Clevis’, ‘Bolts’, ‘Heading Tools’, ‘Welding’, ‘Making Tongs’, ‘Whiffletree Irons’, et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on blacksmithing. This book was First published in 1904.