12 papers by 22 authors from the “Metools” symposium (Queens University, Belfast, 2016), aim to shine a spotlight on the tools of the metalworker and to follow their evolution from the beginning of the Bronze Age through to the Iron Age, as well as the place held by metalworking and its artisans in the economic and social landscape of the period.

Introduces basic skills of metalworking including planning the project, cutting and shaping, forging and forming, machine tool operations, and metal finishing.

Contained within this volume is a detailed and comprehensive guide to general metalworking, with specific information materials, soldering, tools, and methods of sheet metalwork relating to farm and agricultural work. Complete with simple, step-by-step instructions and a plethora of helpful illustrations and diagrams, this is a text that will be of much interest to the novice farmer or farm hand, as well as being of value to anyone with an interest in metalworking. Although old, much of the information contained herein is timeless, making this a great addition to collections of both agricultural and sheet-metalworking literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Need for Sheet-Metalwork on the Farm', 'The Process of Soldering', 'Classes of Solder', 'Soldering Fluxes', 'The Soldering Iron', 'Stock and Tools for Lap Joint', 'Working Instructions for Lap Joints', 'Preparation for Patching', 'Completing the Patch', 'Laying Out and Cutting Tin to Shape', etcetera. We are proud to republish this antiquarian text now complete with a new introduction on metalworking.