The Blacksmith's Project Book

"The Blacksmith's Project Book" presents 20 original intermediate and advanced projects for blacksmiths looking to further hone their skills and learn techniques from European master smiths. This hardcover 248 page book, with over 900 high-quality photos, clearly explains the necessary steps and techniques for completing projects which include metallic fusion, damascening, chromatic finishing techniques, foldforming, patination, sculpture forging, and other interesting topics.Antonello Rizzo's first bestselling project book, "Secrets of the Forge", contained almost 50 original projects by Italian master smiths for beginning and intermediate level blacksmiths. This excellent new book brings the level up a notch and has the intention of also serving as creative fodder for the smiths' own project designs.The bonus 21st chapter of this book is a fascinating essay presenting the essayist’s heartfelt thoughts on the restoration of old wrought iron.You can be sure that there is plenty of material in The Blacksmith's Project Book that will be of great interest to any practicing blacksmith. 

"Antonello Rizzo’s first company was founded in 1983 and dealt with the distribution of blacksmithing books in Italy. After twenty years of experience, Antonello created Mediaprojet Editore, a publishing company with which he published a CD-ROM and two hardcover books that go by the titles of Cancelli d’Italia Vols. 1 & 2 (sold in the USA and abroad as “Gates and Railings Volumes 1 and 2”). Thanks to the on-line market, these works were sold throughout Europe with excellent results. Six years later Antonello closed ""Mediaprojet"" and began the “Rizzo Editore” publishing house. With Rizzo Editore he published two new hardcover books: “Ferri Maestri” (sold in the USA and abroad as “Gates and More by the Masters”) and “I Segreti della Forgia” (sold in the USA and abroad as “Secrets of the Forge”). The first book was a continuation of his “Gates and Railings Volumes 1 and 2” and features Italian ironwork forged between the years 2000 and 2007. The second title was something completely new. It is an instructional book that was written in collaboration with 24 artist-blacksmiths who allowed Antonello into their workshops to document all the processes and techniques and take all the photographs necessary to create a large, heavily illustrated, step-by-step hardcover manual with nearly fifty blacksmithing projects. (Editor’s note: In December, 2017, “Secrets of the Forge” will be re-published in the USA in an all-English edition complete with new technical editing). In 2009, in collaboration with “l’Associazione Fabbri d’Arte”, Antonello contributed to the publication of “Fabbri d’Arte” (sold in the USA and abroad as “Italian Artist-Blacksmiths”), a photographic book that focuses on the works of the 31 members of the association and includes a summary of the creative process behind many of the association’s creations. In 2010 Antonello published, Damascus, a book on damascus steel forging, that features bilingual (Italian-English) text. In 2012 he started publishing blacksmithing articles in “D’A” magazine which specializes in fine arts and craftsmanship. In 2015 he published a photographic book that features bilingual (Italian-English) text entitled ""Fabbri Italiani Contemporanei – (sold in the USA and abroad as “Contemporary Italian Blacksmiths""). In 2017, after 4 years of research and extensive travelling he completed and published his new book on blacksmithing techniques: “The Blacksmith's Project Book""."