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What book(s) would you recommend?
Here are a few I've found either useful, interesting, or both:
_Machinery's Handbook_ (various editions) (needs no explanation)
_Tool Steel Simplified_, Frank R. Palmer. (thanks to Ed H.)
_The Complete Bladesmith_, Jim Hrisoulas (if you're interested in forging blades, buy it and it's companion volumes)
_Steel-Makers and Knotted String_, Harry Brearly (History of the transition from the art to the science of steel making)
R, Tom Q.
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