BOB HEATH Has Lots of Good Stuff For Sale

Here Are Some GREAT Books That BOB Wrote

1) Beginning Blacksmithing One Mississippi Journeyman's View
     Paper bound hand stitched typed manuscript well illustrated with drawings.430 pages. $ 28.00 retail plus $ 2.00 shipping. Tells the basics of blacksmithing with some history of iron smelting, forging, hardening and tempering, metallurgy, and basics.

2) How to Make A Blacksmith's Bellows   ---- paper bound 28 pages well illustrated. It gives details on how to make a leather bellows that is about five feet long, the classic American two chambered bellows that allows a constant flow of air to a forge. $ 5.00 I pay the shipping.

3) How to Make Chain Mail. ----paper bound 30 pages  It gives the details of   EXACTLY how to start out weaving chain mail. Then gives some examples of how to make a coat of chain mail.  $ 5.00 I pay shipping.

4) How to Forge Weld on A Blacksmith's Anvil For Those Who Have Diligently Tried
    and Failed. 52 pages paper bound. If a person can't forge weld after reading this book it would be best if he put his hammer up. $ 10.00 Plus a dollar for shipping or send $ 11.00.

5) Exposse' of Repousse'---paper bound 60 pages -- tells how to get started in doing  Repousse' type work in sheet metal. Belt buckles, Spanish jingle bells or hawk bells (how to forge them), armor, shields (Greek Hopolite and Medieval), embossing, etc.  $ 10.00 plus a $ 1.00 for shipping.

6) Quest for the Indian Trade Gun -- 270 pages-- a treatment on French and English trade guns dug up in Mississippi and Missouri by archaeologists. Tells how they were forged (the barrels) and gives some of the historical details of the differences between the French and English guns. Paper bound hand stitched typed manuscript well illustrated.  $ 22.00 ----I pay postage.

I've sold a lot of these in Australia, some in Holland, Canada, England, and all over the U.S.A.  Centaur sells them, Lindsay Books, Inc. in Illinois, Norm Larson, and a few other sellers handle them (Dixie Gun Works, Harpers Ferry West Va., Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, etc. and a few others )   

                            And Below is Some Equipment Bob Has to Sell.
1) I still have a fine and very large swage block for sale ---$ 400
2) Line shafting with oil bearing mounts (out of an old gin) - "bull" wheel pulleys etc.   $ 400
3) A large Victorian era grinding wheel - large cast iron mount, belt driven with pulleys on the  drive shafting. $ 300
4) Hit and miss engine - Mcormic Deering 3 HP 1936 (no magneto) but otherwise good, kerosene burner also block, head, crank and piston (no fly wheels) of a "Little Jumbo" by Nelson Brothers (3 hp)
5) Some blacksmith vices $ 75 each.
6) If the above items can be sold the shop will be torn down. shop size is 40 X 60 has creosote poles and tin roof that can be sold. Poles and most of the tin roofing is in good shape.

         If anyone wants one just send a check to me at the address below.
Robert M. Heath
1055 Manship St.
Jackson, Mississippi
39202
  HEATHIRON@aol.com

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