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| Complete Bladesmith: Forging Your Way To Perfection | 
 enlarge | Author: Jim Hrisoulas
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $42.95
Buy New: $27.36
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 30569
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 8.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0873644301
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.93
EAN: 9780873644303
ASIN: 0873644301
Publication Date: June 1987
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| Customer Reviews:
 A good solid book May 21, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The book is simple, easy to follow. The book gets straight to the point and lets you in on all the basics without adding too much techno-jargon. I love the forgework involved and have made two knives already. The appendix is useful, as are the list of steels. It has a great list of chemical names and formula for fluxs etc. This book has given me enough information to follow my own style of knifemaking without feeling I have to stick to the 'rules'.
Good book for those who want to learn. April 24, 2003
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
It was very informative and had a lot of illistrations. They gave vareous technequies and the author gave a lot of his ideas. If your interested in bladesmithing or swordsmithing then you should read this book. Wheather your just starting or have been doing it a while this book will teach you new things.
 Not Quite So Simple February 1, 2001
93 out of 109 found this review helpful
You too can be a neurosurgeon! All you need are a table, and some tools...as a complete novice blacksmith, I found that you need some basic skills, and probably lots of them, before you are able to make a decent sword. This book is not going to make the sword for you, of course, but it also lacks such basic information as supply sources and costs. When the author tells you that a new anvil can be expensive, does he mean $100, or $1200? (hint: it's the latter!) Various steps in the process are left out, and though they are no doubt clear to the author, you will probably want to see if a swordmaker will let you watch before you get into an extremely difficult and time-consuming project. All that said, this is probably an important reference book that you should own---perhaps after you buy "The Complete Modern Blacksmith" by Weygers or "The New Anvil's Edge" by Andrews, both of which are quite a bit less expensive and much more user friendly, from my extreme beginner point of view. I'm having a good time learning what to hit and when, and you'll probably get a lot out of blacksmithing should you choose to try it, too.
Best Bladesmith book ever! October 25, 2000
16 out of 19 found this review helpful
I have always wanted to make custom blades, since most of the ones on the market are so common and are of low quality construction. With this book and the other two he has written I was able to go from no experience to making custom blades in less then a month. I highly recommend this book and his others to anyone who wishes to start forging blades.
how dreams do come true October 20, 2000
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
ever wanted to forge a blade and thought it was a dead art, all knowlege lost to the ages? if so this book is what you are looking for,as the title suggests you can be a bladesmith , all you need is the desire and the ability to hold a hammer, and of course patience,this book holds all the info you need
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