February 18, 201412 yr Dad picked this book up somewhere. Has good info, and it appears to be a text book from Stanford university. The owner dated it inside the cover 1937 with his name. It is in really good condition, and only has a few fingerprints.
February 18, 201412 yr The 2nd edition is copyright 1917 and 1920 and 168 pages long with many illustrations. It does have good basic information.
February 18, 201412 yr That'd be a fine addition to my library. I'll have to keep an eye out. Till then the online edition will have to do. https://archive.org/details/elementaryforgepractice00harciala Frosty The Lucky.
February 18, 201412 yr I have a book also titled elementary forge practice that i purchased off of ebay but it is smaller and soft cover,i think it may be a reprint but it has those same type illustrations.I thought it was a decent deal for like 8 or 9 bucks i think i paid for it,i still see them on there once n a while for anyone interested.
February 18, 201412 yr Lindsay had that one as a reprint and abebooks.com has a couple of copies of it for under US$5
February 18, 201412 yr That'd be a fine addition to my library. I'll have to keep an eye out. Till then the online edition will have to do. https://archive.org/details/elementaryforgepractice00harciala Frosty The Lucky. thanks for posting this !!
February 18, 201412 yr I've got the Lindsay reprint, and I will consider myself a real blacksmith the day I can do every project in that little book.
February 18, 201412 yr I've had the book for quite a while. I really like the careful drawings of the scarf shapes which I try to emulate. It is the book which first showed me how to weld a hinge barrel. There is another book of the same title by Bacon, also worth reading.
February 18, 201412 yr The Lindsay reprint is the Bacon book, not Harcourt. They have a very similar look to them. That original is a nice find.
February 19, 201412 yr Author This one is in excellent condition considering the age, and type of book. I want to try some of the projects, and see how well I can do. It is interesting reading some of the passages, and relating them to today.
February 24, 201412 yr FCiron; perhaps Lindsay re-printed both; but sitting on my desk is "Elementary Forge Practice" By Robert H. Harcourt reprinted by Lindsay Publications inc. (1995 reprint of the 1917 copyrighted one.) While going through my Library I also ran across: "Forging Practice" by Carl G Johnson, (1946 edition) "Blacksmithing" James M Drew 1935 "Schmiedeeisen" Franz Nabl it's in Fraktur... Earliest I have tracked this down in the 47 picture version is 1930 after WWII it was re-issued with fewer pictures "Geschmiedetes Eisen" Fritz Kuhn 1939 (sold under the counter at the Frankfurt Fleamarket due to content not allowed on public display) "Das Zweischneidige Schwert Der Germanischen Volkerwanderungszeit" Elis Behmer also 1939 "Schone Alte Wirsthaus Schilder" Walter Leonhard 1973/1977 I spent a summer in German on a business trip and know enough German to order a beer and to ask about old blacksmithing books at the fleamarkets and used book stores (though the sword one I purchased from another IFI member!) (Old as much was destroyed or changed during the various wars and so the earlier the source the better!)
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