On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:49:18 -0700, Trevor Jones
wrote:

The title is _The Making Of Tools_, by Alexander G. Weygers. I've seen it in
libraries; Amazon claims to have a few copies, probably used, and the price
is less than $10.

It will tell you how to choose a useful steel for the job; how to shape it;
how to heat-treat it; how to affix handles and how to sharpen it.

I recall being told that that was one of a couple books grafted
together into the book "The Complete Modern Blacksmith"

"The Complete Modern Blacksmith" will _not_ tell you how to heat treat
tools. It's one of the worst books I've ever been fool enough to buy,
it has almost no smithing in it, and the section on heat treatment is
inaccurate rubbish.


If you are making WW tools, the Intermediate Technology people
(Schumacher's lot) have a book or two on how to do this, from found
materials, and with minimal equipment.

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