Artisan Ideas
Artisan Ideas is the publishing imprint of Artisan North America. Their clients are professionals and serious hobbyists looking to improve their skills in specialised areas of craftsmanship. For 25 years Artisan has provided blacksmiths, knife and sword makers, jewellery makers, machinists, gunsmiths, and other craftspeople with the best instructional books available.
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The definitive hard-cover reference on anvil manufacture, importation and collecting.
An extensive and impressive research piece covering how anvils were made, who made them and where. Containing dozens of old anvil advertisements and hundreds of pictures of anvils with explanatory text, the text defines seventeen distinct parts of the anvil, discusses weight-marking systems, manufacturing techniques and the patterns and types of anvils forged or cast during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
