[ABANA] Educational Downloads

ABANA continues to develop educational programs and focus on providing avenues to learn about the art. One area of blacksmithing education is through the availability, to our members, of written and audio/visual materials. We will also be adding and archiving educational files to this part of the site. If you have an article, story, or set of plans you would like to share with the membership, please the Central Office.

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Favorite YouTube Videos

[Note: Unfortunately YouTube links don't seem to last very long. So you may have to search for these by name.]

Mark Aspery Demonstrates Forge Welding

Jill Turman on being an Artist-Blacksmith

Mark Aspery on Blacksmithing --
Making closed die ball tool on the power hammer.
Mark demonstrates his mastery over steel by showing how an original form can be used to make a tool that is used to make many duplicates of that form.

PDF Files:
• Vertical Vice
• 3 Phase Convertor
• Pipe Forge Plans
• Guillotine Tool

Several documents available above are in PDF format. To access these files, you must download the most current Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader by clicking on the icon above. This is a free download.

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