Doomsday Defense

Handbook · 1912

Forge Work

by William L. Ilgen

Note. Forging involves extreme heat, flying scale and carbon monoxide from the fire. Work with eye protection and good ventilation.

Written by a forging instructor at Crane Technical High School in Chicago, Forge Work is a step-by-step course: the forge, anvil and hand tools; the basic operations (drawing out, upsetting, bending, punching, welding); graded practice exercises; hardening and tempering tool steel; making your own tools; art smithing; and a primer on how iron and steel are made.

A community that can forge can repair and make almost anything metal. More in blacksmithing.

Author
William L. Ilgen
Published
1912, American Book Company
Topics
Blacksmithing & Metalwork
Rights
Public domain: published in the United States before 1930.
Transcription
Project Gutenberg eBook #53854

Contents

10 sections
  1. Chapter I — Tools and Appliances
  2. Chapter II — Forging Operations
  3. Chapter III — Practice Exercises
  4. Chapter IV — Treatment of Tool Steel
  5. Chapter V — Tool Making and Stock Calculation
  6. Chapter VI — Steam Hammer, Tools, and Exercises
  7. Chapter VII — Art Smithing and Scroll Work
  8. Chapter VIII — Iron Ore, Preparation and Smelting
  9. Chapter IX — The Manufacture of Iron and Steel
  10. Formulas and Tables

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