Elementary Wrought Iron by Bollinger, J. W. outlet NEUF

This volume contains a guide to elementary wrought ironwork. It was written to highlight the possibilities of metal work as an industrial-arts subject, and contains a course of projects incorporating forge work, bench-metal work, sheet-metal work, lathe work, and pipe fitting. Complete with clear and concise instructions, as well as being profusely illustrated, this is a text that will be of value to students of wrought ironwork, and will also be of considerable value to collectors of antique literature of this ilk. The chapters of this book include: Building a Forge Fire, Measuring and Laying Off, Cutting, Tapering, Upsetting, Flaring, Twisting Making Bends Over the Anvil, Shaping an Eye, Shaping a Ring, Making Bends in the Bending Fork, Bending With the Use of Forms, Bending Scrolls over Scroll Forms, etcetera. We are proud to be republishing this antique work now complete with a new introduction on the subject of metal work.