Welding Technology

Shows you how blacksmithing can be easy to learn, and a rewarding hobby, with some patience and a working knowledge of metals, basic tools, and techniques. Through instructions and illustrations, readers will learn to make simple tools and useful items, such as nails, hinges, and handles, and also an interesting mix of artful projects, such letter openers, door knockers and botanical ornaments.

Details forging techniques from start to finish, beginning with building your own forge to making tools and elaborate door knockers.

A blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption. The authors probe the science of technological convergence and how it will reinvent every part of our lives, including transportation, retail, advertising, education, health, entertainment, food, and finance.

A practical and comprehensive guide to becoming a hero of the new industrial revolution.

Offers designers, architects, and sculptors information on designing, detailing, and specifying metal in various applications. Also describes the basic processes available to fabricate metal so they can think about how the work might be built while they are still in the design process.

This collection of priceless tips, tricks, skills, and experiences from a veteran of the trade is presented in a way that captures the readers attention and engages them in the process of furthering their skills. It includes shop-tested descriptions and illustrations of creative and unique techniques and observations from four decades in the metalworking trades.

Describes basic welding techniques, discusses safety equipment and precautions, and suggests a variety of welding projects.

Overview of welding basics, materials, metal forming, and safety, followed by step-by-step how-to projects with full color photos. Featured projects include simple shop furniture, baker's shelf, arbor, garden gate, and garden bench.

Covers print reading basics, math and measurement, an overview of welding processes, types of welds and joints, and welding symbol use.