Looking back into the old days... (#2)
...in Hagen's Open Air Museum for Craft and Technics (Ruhr area North Rhine Westfalia, Germany).
"Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, etc.[citation needed] An important attraction is the triphammer workshop. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening." (Wikipedia)
This pictures shows a detail of a die press / Gesenkpresse.
Looking back into the old days... (#2)
...in Hagen's Open Air Museum for Craft and Technics (Ruhr area North Rhine Westfalia, Germany).
"Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, etc.[citation needed] An important attraction is the triphammer workshop. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening." (Wikipedia)
This pictures shows a detail of a die press / Gesenkpresse.