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| | Plough Book Sales: Forge Craft (1913) by Charles Philip Crowe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) |
 | | Charles Crowe of Ohio State University has returned from 1913 to teach us how the fundamentals of working iron, of being a flsmith, and of being an artist in iron. |
 | | Chapters include the forge, tools, materials used, formed work, hooks and chains, welding, special welds, heat treatment, tool smithing, hardening and carbonizing, temporing and an additional chapter on metallurgy. |
 | | Numerous photos, samples of unusual pieces of work, and the professional tone of the text are the strengths of this book. |
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