Colonial Blacksmith Tools

While many citizen today, when asked what a blacksmith used to do in the olden colonial, or even medieval days, they would likely say to shoe horses. If you asked them to come up with something else, they would likely to be hard pressed to do so, and likely propose something like sword making. Most citizen likely get that idea, from Watching too many movies with swashbuckling sword fights colse to the blacksmiths shop. Remember that scene from the first Pirates of the Caribbean?

In colonial times, during the settling of North America, the colonial blacksmith was regarded as the most leading craftsman of his time. Nothing got built without a blacksmith, as all the other craftsman relied on the blacksmith to build and voice all the tools and tool primary for their trades. Carts and buggies were often in need of mend from a blacksmith due to the conditions of the primitive roads they traveled on. Until the day of the market revolution in North America, which took a while to arrive from Europe, blacksmithing was the core foundation to industry in the new world.

The tools used by the extremely regarded colonial blacksmith, and his lucky apprentice, weren't all that distinct than those used by today's hobby blacksmiths. A forge was of policy essentially and quite authentically the heart of the shop. Assorted hammers, anvils, thongs, punches, chisels, and other holding down tools were all part of the colonial shop. The process of working with hot metal to take the desired form, has continued unto this day.

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