Modern Blacksmithing: Rational Horse Shoeing and Wagon Making, With Rules, Tables, Recipes, Etc. E-book. Formato PDF John Gustaf Holmström   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The author has been eminently successful in his practice, and his Ideas have been sought by others Wherever he has been, blacksmiths coming even from other States to learn his ways. This little book is fresh from the anvil, the author taking notes during the day while at work, compiling the same into articles at night.

Standard Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Making. E-book. Formato PDF John Gustaf Holmström   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The author of this book has been prompted by two rea sons in the undertaking: First, the phenomenal sale of his first book, Modern Blacksmithing second, by the many letters asking for information on such work as was not treated in that book. People in general are not aware of the fact that, in our time of manufacture, blacksmithing is almost a lost art, for nearly everything formerly made by the smith is now turned out by machinery. I have never been in a community yet where I did not hear this remark about the smith: Oh, he is a good smith; While the fact is, in many instances, that there was not a real smith within hundreds of miles, and they might very appropriately have joined in the lamentation of old; There is no smith found in all the land of Israel.