NRBA Library 

NRBA LIBRARIAN, Frank Donohue, 25 Potter Creek Road, Wilsall, MT 59086  406 224-0031 & 406 686-9142   donahue@wtp.net


New Books:

ABC’s of Blacksmithing - Fridolin Wolf - Overview of blacksmith’s craft.

Antique Iron: Survey of American & English Forms - Herb, Peter & Nancy Schiffer - Covers antique ironware field.

Art Nouveau Ironwork of Austria & Hungary - Federico Santi & John Gacher - 500 vivid photos, explanations of settings with details & motifs.

Art of Casting in Iron - Simpson Bolland - Written as supplement to The Iron Founder

Art of Coppersmithing: A practical treatise on working sheet copper into all forms. John Fuller, Sr. - Written in 1893. Erection & management of cupolas, furnaces, blowers, dams, ladles, foundry equipment etc.

Bent Iron Work: Including elementary art metal work - Paul N Hasluck - Features tools and materials, bending and working strip iron,illustrations. Numerous projects.

Bugs & Birds - Bill Epps (CD) - Insect & bird motifs for decorative work.

Charcoal Foundry - David J Gingery - Extremely simple to build & low initial cost. Fundamentals of pattern-making & moldings.

Decorative & Sculptural Ironwork: Tools, Techniques & Inspiration - Donna Z. Meilach - Discusses ironworking shop, forge, and tools

Forged Animal Heads - Bill Epps (CD) - Steps to creating novelty animal heads from square stock & horseshoes.

Ironwork: Dynamic Details -Donna Z. Meilach - 250 color photos of iron objects - flowers, leaves, animals, scrolls not normally from hard material.

Making Tongs - Bill Epps (CD) - Making three tong joints: twisted/scrolling, wolfjaw/traditional, and bolt head/’Champion’.

Nahum Hersom Repousee Repousee work

Shop Drawing for Blacksmiths - Jerry Hoffmann - Visual index for projects, theme variations and how-to information.

Small Foundry Furnaces Volume 1: Build an Oil Fired Tilting Furnace - Stephen Chastain - Plans & operating instructions for furnace that easily melts 100# of aluminum per hour.


Permanent Collection:

101 Metal Projects - Novice Blacksmith -Cannella

American Pewter - Kirfoot

Animal Silhouettes - Sandbeck

Applied Typography - Japan

Architectural Ironwork - Meilach

Armor, From Ancient to Moden Times - Klucina

Art Nouveau Decorative Ironwork - Menten

Art of Albert Paley (The) - Lucie-Smith

Art of Blacksmithing (The) revised edition - Bealer

Art of Wrought Metalwork for House and Garden (The) - Schmirler

Artist Blacksmith Craft (The) - Schramm

Artist Blacksmith Craft (The) - P Parkinson

Basic Blacksmithing - Harries & Heer

Beaten Metal Work - Horth

Beautiful Iron, Pursuit of Excellance - Whitaker

Beginning Blacksmithing - Heath

Best of the Hammers Blow Vol 1 (The) - ABANA

Blacksmith - Ironworker and Farrier (The) - Watson

Blacksmithing for Beginners - Moore

Blacksmiths Manual Illustrated - Lillico

Blacksmithing Primer (A) - McDaniel

Blacksmiths Cookbook (The) - Whitaker

Blacksmiths Craft (The) - RDC

Blacksmiths Travel Album 1994 (A) - Masters

Blacksmiths Sketchbook - Alling

Build Your Own Hydraulic Forging Press 1994 - Batson

Build Your Own Metalworking Shop - Sheet Metal Brake - Gingery

Catalog Drawings Wrought Ironwork - RDC

Charcoal & Charcoal Burning - Kelly

Charleston Blacksmith - Work of P Simons - Vlach

Colonial Wrought Iron - Plummer

Colouring, Bronzing & Patinations of Metals (The) - Huges & Rowe

Complete Modern Blacksmith (The) - Weygers

Complete Modern Blacksmith (The) - Meilach

Contemporary Forms - Hoffman

Contemporary Patination - Young

Creating Welded Sculpture - Hale

Decorative Ironwork - Campbell

Decorative Ironwork - RDC

Din of a Smithy (The) - Stevenson

Direct Metal Sculpture - Meilach

Drawing Forging & Bending Dies - Larson

Drawing, You Can Do It - Albert

Edgar Brandt, Master of Art Deco Ironwork - Kahr

Edge of the Anvil - Andrews

Elementary Forge Practice - Bacon

Elementary Forge Practice - Harcourt

English Wheel Book (The) - Anderson

Fifty Centuries of Art - Taylor

Fire Place Accessories - Meilach

For the Ironworker - Wamath

Forging Character - Miller

Foxfire 5 - Wigginton

Geschmiedtes Eisen - Kuhn

Hammer Work - Larson

Hand Forging and Wrought-Iron Ornamental Work - Googerty

Heartland Blacksmith - Reichelt

In Line Treadle Hammer - Spencer

Into the New Iron Age, Modern British Blacksmiths - Chatwin

Iron Menagerie - Guild of Metalsmiths

Iron Spirits - ND Arts Council

Kunstchmieden - Walz, Hafon

Life Force at the Anvil - Joyce

Little Giant Trip Hammer (The) - Kern

Mande Blacksmiths (The) - McNaughton

Metal Design International 2002 - Elgass

Metalwork and Enameling - Maryon

Moving Metal - The Art of Chasing and Repousse - Stienes

My Life as an Artist Blacksmith - Whitaker

New Edge of the Anvil - Andrews

Old-Fashioned Silhouettes - Grafton

Ornamental Ironwork - Southworth

Patinas for Small Studios 1955 - Charles L Brain

Plain & Ornamental Forging - Schwarzkopf

Pounding Out the Profits - Freund

Practical Blacksmithing 2nd edition - Blandford

Practical Projects for the Blacksmith - Tucker

Precisionism in America 1914-1941 - Abrams

Professional Smithing - Streeter

Samuel Yellin, Methal Worker - Andrews

Silhouette Designs - Prosperoso

Silhouettes - Grafton

Small Time Operator - Kameroff

Smithy’s Craft and Tools (The) - Schmirler

Southwestern Colonial Ironwork - Simmons & Turley

Spanish Decorative Ironwork - LaBarta

Spruce Forge, Manual of Locksmithing (The) - Morrison

Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction - Price

Tools and their Uses - Naval Office

Treadle Hammering - Clay Spencer

Treasury of Iron Work Design - Crafton

What’s in Style Fireplaces - Still

Wrought Iron Artistry - Schmirier

Wrought Iron Designs - Grave

Wrought Ironwork - RDC

 

Toni Seccomb and Frank Donahue perusing the NRBA Library at a conference


Library Rules

I  The library is owned by the NRBA (you) and is available only to current, dues-paid-up members. 

II  You are expected to take care of the books and videos and return them on time. 

III  There is no charge for use of the resources, except the postage and mailer to send the books through the mail.  The librarian mails the books to you and you include a check to cover the postage when you send the books back so there is no cost to the NRBA.  

V  Two books may be checked out for one month.  One Video title (may  include more than one tape) may be checked out for two weeks.

VI   Requests will be processed as soon as practicable.

VII  Donations of Blacksmith-Metal Related Books, Videos and Cash are welcome to help the Library increase its resources.


Book/Video Request. NRBA membership required.

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