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LIFE IS FEUDAL WIKI BLACKSMITH HAMMER CRACK

Good blades (for knives, chisels, axes, and other tools with cutting edges) are always made of steel, then heat-treated, and then sharpened. A blade made from a piece of iron (instead of steel) will very soon become dull and will not cut. This is a special way to make the steel hot and then cold, so that the steel will become hard enough to keep a cutting edge ( blade).

Steel acts just like iron, until a blacksmith "heat-treats" the steel. Blacksmiths can cover the hot metal with sand, so that it takes hours to become cold. To anneal iron or steel, a blacksmith heats the metal until it no longer pulls a magnet, and then makes the metal become cold very slowly. To make work-hardened metal soft again, so that a smith can hammer and bend it more, the smith anneals the metal.

LIFE IS FEUDAL WIKI BLACKSMITH HAMMER CRACK

If a smith hammers or bends a piece of metal that is already work-hardened, it will crack and break. Steel is iron with a little carbon in it (0.3% to 1.7% carbon by weight).Īll metals get harder when a smith hammers or bends them. Welding is the hardest thing for a blacksmith to learn and to do. Then he puts the pieces together and hammers on them so there is no line where they came together. The blacksmith makes the pieces of iron so hot that they almost melt.

Welding: making different pieces of iron become one piece of iron.

A rivet is then put in the holes, and the blacksmith hammers on the rivet to make the heads at each end of the rivet. The blacksmith makes a hole in each piece of iron, where he wants the pieces to come together. Rivets are used to make different pieces of iron stay together.

Rivetting: a rivet is like a machine bolt with a head at both ends.

Splitting: hammering a chisel into the end of a piece of hot iron, to make a stick of iron into a "Y" shape, to make a fork.

Cutting: hammering a chisel through the side of a piece of hot iron, to make two shorter pieces.

Punching: A blacksmith hammers a punch through a piece of hot iron, to make a hole in the hot iron.Ī chisel is a tool like a short stick of iron.

Upsetting: hammering on the end of a piece of hot iron, to make it shorter and fatter.Ī punch is a tool like a short stick of iron.

Drawing: hammering on the sides of a piece of hot iron, to make it longer and thinner.

Bending: hammering a piece of hot iron, to make it curve or to make it have a corner.

Here are the most important ways that a blacksmith uses: There are a few ways to change a piece of iron's shape with hammer and heat. The blacksmith puts pieces of iron in the fire to make them hot and to keep them hot until they use it. A bellows pushes air into the forge, to make the fire burn hotter. It burns coal or charcoal in a very hot fire. A blacksmith has only a few seconds to hammer a piece of iron, before it must be put back in the fire to become hot again.Ī forge is a special oven for metalworking. Iron must be very hot to shape with a hammer.