Blacksmith's art and mystery
Forty years later, the pierced ring that pierced my father's sledge echoed in my heart still in my mind. Easily flatten the black iron, grind, bend, grasp the red hot metal with the tongue in his powerful hand, skillfully skillfully skillfully skill it until hitting the horse's hooves perfectly It was. Smoke rises and the smoldering smoldering of the burning hoof makes me feel right. He winks at me and informs me that a horse can not feel something. He drops his shoes in a cool bucket of water. Three shoes to go. Blacksmith; Their work is beyond the age.
Art
I visited many historic buildings and visited every time I exhibited stones and coal forgings, fire extinguishers, metal brand items. Often there is a demonstration by a guy in the butt of a leather apron, I feel like I am at home.
Traditionally, traders dealing with iron and black metals have been known as "blacksmiths" because they work with various metal hits as it was known. From the 18th century to the 19th century, everyone needed it from this custom tool maker so they got a high reputation.
One in ten of the initial settlers was a farmer who needed a tool to clear the land and work. They often had cows with horses and other livestock. Blacksmith produced metallic parts for horse, carriage, ax head, hammer, shovel, hoe, pitch fork as well as plows, shackles, cycling, and cargo. In addition, the horses needed shoes to protect the hoof from the rural street of the country, and free-moving cows required the cow's bell to inform the farmers where to play the game. Indeed, American Ax, who remained comparable for more than 225 years, made the most important contribution to the tools made by blacksmiths.
Some blacksmiths forged by fire, some of which are unknown were for women. Tools for preparing and eating meals; forks, knives, spoons, cooking pots and frying pans, coffee and teapots, cast iron kettles, lanterns, sewing and other household items. Workers in trade and industry also needed tools. The builder needed door hinges, chandeliers, hooks, nails or screws. Anchors and chains were necessary for ships in the port. Wood workers needed tools like cross-cut needles, airplanes, scrapers, chisels 1. Furthermore, in order to make a small hole in the wood and quickly drill a large bit with a middle bit and a large shallow hole in brackets, Gimlet was necessary. Hunters and war soldiers of the 18th century used forged blades of hands like bowie and long hunter knife. Swords of various lengths, metal canteen, Tomahawk, gun parts are other types of ingenious devices made by a skilled blacksmith. Camp iron works include tripod, trammel, cover, spatula, ladle, strainer.
The blacksmith also maintained the manual work with a grindstone that sharpens all metal blades. There are knives, bats, axes, saws, sickles and sickles.
Main tool of trade
The blacksmith symbol is certainly "anvil". Without it, there is no craft. Still it is just one of the various tools of trade. By the Mother Earth News Editor (November / December 1975) 2 refers to anvils of various sizes ranging from small to large 500 pound models. I can easily imagine the blacksmith looking for trees to tighten the 200 pound anvil firmly. The light anvil was not stable, it was difficult to tighten under a heavy hammer stroke, and on the big model the back was hard.
Instrumental is a hammer for the blacksmith. Customizing hammers to fit their skills and work, most blacksmiths had several kinds of hammers. He was trained with a heavy sledge or a lighter ball, cross, straight peen. The handle was an essential element for the hammer. It is usually made from hickory or ash, attached properly to the palm of the blacksmith to wedge and forge looks comfortable. It is the essence of this trade to know which hammer to use, when and how to use that effect with minimum energy.
Links, belts, hoops, and horseshoe are all types of tongs. Sometimes blacksmiths have a wide variety of sizes and shapes made for specific purposes. Tongs known as refractory extension of homemade hands are very personal. They are strong, but it is known that when the hammer gets hit hard, they slide with loose grips and fly red hot bits of iron. Most blacksmiths added a catch on one side of the handle to the tongs to make possession, avoiding the possibility of injury or fire.
The upright chisel is a tool that fits into the very hard, flat top square hole of Anvil and is called "hard hole". This hole is used to hold several tools. Mandrel, Fleur, Hardy etc, that name of sake is included.
Finishing touches the trade tool punch, file, waterway. Drill holes in the metal at points of different shapes called punches. Whether the file was coarse or fine, grate the metal deposits and create a smooth surface. A water trough or quench tab was used to cool the metal and solidify the final product. It was also convenient to prepare the water to throw away the flame if the fire was too high.
Mystery revealed
An article about iron in the raging state of the 18th century made of North American villages was called Bogg iron which is a low grade ore collected in wetlands and ponds. If you got permission from the king, I could set up an iron furnace, but you had to own a huge amount of natural resources. Limestone out cropping for wood, ore and huge ore supply for charcoal production. Therefore, iron was difficult to acquire in annual settlement year due to British regulation.
In this article I will continue to explain the foundation for building iron as a trade within itself. When sufficient ore was collected, the iron furnace started with coal and worked for 24 hours / 7 days for 2 to 4 weeks. It was tapped as iron was refined from the ore and fluxed with limestone. It looked like a sow and a female pig, and the molten iron ran away. It was called pig iron. Sophisticated pig iron in a shop-like store was cultivated in usable iron metal prepared for the hands of the manufacturer - skillful shape, contour, strike, pound, hammer blacksmith.
Apprenticeship
The life of the blacksmith was difficult, but there was nothing compared to the disciples of the blacksmith. Masters apprenticeship for free for about 4 to 5 years. These boys mastered the secrets of trade in exchange for clothes, accommodation, food and learned until they became masters themselves. Small item nails, screws, bolts, hooks were usually made by apprenticeship.
Farriers
In the late 1800s, we found blacksmiths in cities and towns throughout Canada. However, during the Great Depression and World War II, all trade was destroyed and only Farriers, a professional subsection of the blacksmith focusing on horseshoe, remained. In the past the rest of the work done by the blacksmith was swallowed in the factory and little room for the old blacksmith was left. Some blacksmiths were trained to wear shoes on horses. These men were called surgeons. They worked exclusively with horses. Shap the shoes, roughen the hoof, burn it, protect the shoes by nailing them to the hooves. Some surgeons became the first veterinarians to take care of lame and diseased animals.
Ribéry
There was a blacksmith in the majority of the settlement community. Some have very large doors, horses, wagons and agricultural tools fit inside, but most are small and lighting is inadequate. The store was usually near the stability of life (the barn). Construction was an important resource for settlers, generally ignored by historians. Among other things, wood and coal were delivered not only for fever, but also for benefits for hay and livestock. One of the most important functions of the early settlement service was to provide important transport services. A stable place where colonists can hire horses, teams, wagons. If you were lucky enough to own a horse, delivery was a place to go for a short trip, so it was often delivered to hotels and accommodations.
Meanwhile, there were several pitfalls in the business of the town. It was well known. Noise and pests are problems and it is reported that unpleasant odors occur in and around the liver. Over and over, in many places the town tried to control the region and activities of that region. Immoral behavior such as gambling, stag show, cock fighting was a bad thing to enjoy in the place of life.
present day
Today there are few blacksmiths pursuing the earliest blacksmith traditional methods, including forging, welding, riveting and repairing of metal parts for agricultural machinery. Nevertheless, there has been a true Renaissance in the artistic blacksmith in the past decade. Blacksmith business of craftmen in South Ontario is specialized in handmade iron products, custom metal production, welding services for home, garden or business. There is also a demonstration at a special event such as Enoko and a small town traditional festival. Artists - Blacksmith & # 39; North American Association (ABANA) is currently recruiting about 5,000 members and has doubled the number of members 10 years ago.
In Ontario Sparta there is the oldest blacksmith store built in 1827. The building of Cobb (clay and straw) is now a museum of blacksmith and anvil. On the walls of this historic blacksmith there is a clay wall with a wall thickness of 9 inches and many relics that reflect the history of the Sparta area are preserved.
