Washoe County Library System

"The ultimate blacksmithing guide! Groundwork technique tutorials required to hot-work steel Expert guidance on taking heats, finishes, and cutting steel Step-by-step projects for making a tapered bar, a prybar, a spring puller, a ring, and more Making a forge or, more economically, buying one, and how to build, maintain, and use a suitable fire Detailed guidance on the hearth, safety, tools, clothes, and more Home Workshop Blacksmithing for Beginners...

Featuring artwork by the award-winning illustrator of Are You Going to Be Good?, a contemporary rendering of Longfellow's nineteenth-century poem depicts a neighborhood blacksmith who works hard and passes on the tools of his trade before returning home for a well-deserved rest.

After discovering a lost Tea Dragon in the marketplace, apprentice blacksmith Greta learns about the dying art form of Tea Dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners.

Master blacksmith Joe DeLaRonde demonstrates the basic skills and techniques needed to make the tools and accoutrements required for life on the homestead or ranch. Detailed and easy-to-understand instructions, illustrations, and photographs will help the beginning blacksmith set up the forge, get the fire hot enough for welding, and craft the tools needed for blacksmithing.

Over a year since being entrusted with Ginseng's care, Greta still can't chase away the cloud of mourning that hangs over the timid Tea Dragon. As she struggles to create something spectacular enough to impress a master blacksmith, she questions the true meaning of crafting and caring for someone in grief.