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The blacksmith is part of the museum on Texel. According to the time schedule he should be working but his workshop was empty.
After two years I'm finally sharing these photos of my latest Dark Age creation, a medieval Blacksmith Watermill that specialize on making enchanted weapons. Using the nearby river, the mill mechanism turns the shafts and powers the blacksmith drop-hammer.
It has a vegetable garden and a courtyard as well as a kitchen and smokestack. I built-in Power Functions to light up both the fireplace and the oven, as well as move the water wheel and drop hammer. I have a full video on this MOC on my YouTube channel here - youtu.be/81YqJs8wtBg
I hope you enjoy my creation, and check out the video!
Cambria Iron Works Complex, the Blacksmith Shop is the most historically significant of the structures. Originally owned by the Cambria Iron Company, the Blacksmith Shop produced a wide range of metal products throughout the 19 th and 20 the centuries. With the decline of the steel industry and the closing of Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1992, the Blacksmith Shop has since been vacant.
The Blacksmith Shop is a large brick structure that was constructed in at least five stages. The original building is octagonal shaped with an octagonal cupola, containing heavy timbered roof trusses with iron tension rods, common-bond red brick walls and pilasters. In the 1870s, a rectangular wing was added to the west elevation and in 1885 another wing was added on the east elevation. It retains a full complement of original turn-of-the-century forging and smiting tools and a variety of steam-powered hammers, including a ten-ton steam hammer owned by the Smithsonian Institute and leased to the Redevelopment Authority .
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Damascus steel was a term used by several Western cultures from the Medieval period onward to describe a type of steel used in swordmaking from about 300 BC to 1700 AD. These swords are characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water. Such blades were reputed to be not only tough and resistant to shattering, but capable of being honed to a sharp and resilient edge
Blacksmiths
Smut-smirched smiths, smothered with smoke
Drive me to death with distraction and din.
No one ever heard such noise in the night:
Clamouring of knaves and clattering knocks,
The hog-nosed hobgoblins hollering, “Ho! Coal!”
And blowing their bellows fit to burst brains.
“Huff! Puff!” howls one, “Haff! Paff!” another,
Gnashing and gnawing and groaning together,
Hitting out hotly with mad hammers,
Roundly wrapped in rawhide aprons,
Their shanks hard-clad against sparks.
They heft heavy hammers – hard to handle –
And bang on anvils with angry smacks:
“Luss! Buss! Lass! Dass!”: chorus of crashing!
Devils are doomed by so dreadful a din!
He lengthens by belting, he smelts and he snips,
He twists and he twines, striking three times:
“Tik! Tak! Hic! Hac! Tiket! Taket! Tik! Tak!
Luss! Buss! Luss! Dass!” Such lives they lead:
Mad, blackened farriers! Be merciful, Christ!
They plunge iron in water; ravage the night.
Fourteenth century alliterative poem, translated by Giles Watson. The text is printed in Maxwell S. Luria and Richard L. Hoffman, Middle English Lyrics, 1974, p. 130, and a slightly shortened version has recently been recorded by the Mediaeval Baebes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0H98YU3IWs
The picture shows detail from a misericord in Ripple parish church, Worcestershire.
The shingle roof on the blacksmith shop held up quite well in the windstorm of 9-22-2016
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This one is from the archives - August 2010. I didn't process this one at the time as I wasn't that happy with it. However, at the minute I'm playing with a 15 day trial of Silver Efex pro and thought it might be a good one to have a play with in that program.
This is the colour version (Doh! Obviously I hear you cry!)
RPPC taken aboard a Maine Class Battleship ( BB 10 - 12 ) from the bridge overlooking the bow as the ship's blacksmith and his mates fabricate parts from round stock. A portable coal forge with hand driven forge blower and anvil on a protective canvas tarp and a set of tools are on deck, note the handles for carrying. this photo dates to the 1920's
A little serie of craftwork workingplaces from the old days.
We photographed them at several places in Holland
Circa early 1900’s blacksmith shop in Flinton, facing onto Clement Street, at the corner of Harrison and Clement Streets.
The man on the left, (horseshoe in hand) is about to shoe the horse using farrier tools in the tool tote at the horse’s feet. The man on the right is repairing a wagon wheel. The child in the foreground is most likely Francis Allair; however, there is another child behind the wagon wheel. Could that be Francis? Which man is his father and owner of the blacksmith shop, Eli Allair? Who is the other man in the picture?
Notice how similar in appearance both men are. Perhaps it’s Eli and his brother, Joe Allair, but who is who? Another pioneer mystery!
Photo courtesy of Carol Lessard, research and information courtesy of Yvonne Marshall.
The above reprinted from the 2011 CDHS Heritage Calendar.
Part of the Carol Lessard Album.
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Before the wood roof collapsed and weather and age took its toll, the blacksmith shop was used to repair various pieces of farm equipment, tools and metal items used around the ranch. An intact wood work bench is still visible inside the building and various rusted metal connectors and chains hang from the walls. (U.S. Army video by John Prettyman / Released)
One of the historic buildings at Jones Falls is the blacksmith's shop (1843) which is still used today with tools from that era. We stopped in for some photos since it was open when we were passing by.
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. whitesmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such as gates, grilles, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculpture, tools, agricultural implements, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils and weapons.
While there are many people who work with metal such as farriers, wheelwrights, and armorers, the blacksmith had a general knowledge of how to make and repair many things, from the most complex of weapons and armor to simple things like nails or lengths of chain.