Friday, August 02, 2013

Working man.

Beating red-hot metal with a hammer.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did the picture get flipped or is that a left-handed blacksmith?

Firehand said...

Damn, I miss doing that.

Anonymous said...

>Did the picture get flipped

Not flipped according to the lettering on the blue cardboard box to the right.

I'd say he was using a "swage block" to make a fireplace shovel.

TJIC said...

Nice holder for the swage block; I've got to weld up one of those myself.

Firehand said...

Yep, that's a swage block

Boat Guy said...

Just learning and so was proud of myself to ID the tool correctly.
Blacksmithing is cool ... well, hot too. And difficult; least for me at the moment...

Carl H said...

From arm wrasslin' contests years ago - leave those blacksmiths alone!