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One of many displays showing the range of skills in the Royal Engineers (others were builders, joiners, plumbers and welder fabricators)
This man had incredible green-blue eyes, and waved me into his shop while I wandered the 'old city' of Agra. He had a substantial foreign-coin collection glued to the wall and wanted me to contribute something.
There were two Canadian dimes, but I had no coinage to add.
This old vise is part of a display of blacksmith tools at the Bedeque Area Historical Museum. So far, this is one of the best museums I've visited on Prince Edward Island. It is crammed full of superb artifacts, detailed interpretive signage, and one of the best clock collections I've seen anywhere. In my opinion, it is well worth a visit.
This photo was shot with a Laowa FFII 35mm f/0.95 lens at f/0.95. The huge aperture allowed me to capture images like this in marginal light at low ISOs.
Another beautiful community event at MLF's Community First! Village using craft, farming & food to build bridges between volunteers and the homeless. We believe that hospitality, shared work & a common table are vital to our ultimate purpose of connecting human to human, heart to heart.
Only place in town where the teachers, craftsmen, cooks and leaders are homeless and there to serve you, the volunteer. Come on out and help us build a community that will change hundreds of lives for the better!
Sign up at: mlf.org/volunteer
Part of a blacksmith demonstration. Taken at the Oregon Covered Bridge Festival in Stayton, Oregon, September 16, 2006.
The blacksmith pictured is Thomas Taranowski (thanks to his wife for the info).
A new volunteer event happening every other Saturday morning this summer at the MLF Village. A small team of learning blacksmiths (both volunteers and homeless friends) trying our hands at metal beautifications for the Village and then joining in the Genesis Garden program's amazing Cowboy Brunch after! It's a beautiful thing!
An adult in blacksmith costume wipes the sweat from his forehead in Old Sacramento during a historical reenactment.
925 sterling silver. Prior Anthracit tenth anniversary, we have designed this pin with blacksmiths 'hallmark' hammers, tongs and anvils.
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Blacksmith Steen Nielsen
Strobe fired from camera right at 1/16th power.
Triggered with another flash.
Blacksmith Shop
Bolton, Massachusetts, c. 1802-10
Moved to OSV, 1957
With their clanging panoply of tools —anvils, hammers, tongs, flatters, and fullers—and working with intense heat on iron or steel, blacksmiths fashioned needed items and repaired broken ones for the whole community. They used easily available charcoal or sometimes soft coal to heat the forge. New “black metal” stock in a wide variety of shapes and sizes was available from country merchants, though rural blacksmiths also frequently took old iron in payment.
In the New England countryside, blacksmiths undertook several different kinds of work. Some became specialized manufacturers producing edge tools or machinery. Some concentrated on shoeing horses, while others turned to wheelwrighting and repairing vehicles. And still others kept busy as general blacksmiths, repairing manufactured and imported tools, shoeing horses and oxen, and making many of the smaller items needed in the community. Most smiths’ work was on farm tools and household utensils, but millers and other craftsmen also called upon their skills.
Blacksmith Moses Wilder purchased land in 1802 for a shop in Bolton adjoining a stone quarry operated by his wife’s cousins. He probably built the shop now at the museum soon afterwards, using some 400 granite stones from the quarry to form the walls. Like Emerson Bixby, Wilder served a rural neighborhood, bought farmland, and undertook a wide variety of work. We know from Bixby’s accounts that his business gradually declined as his neighborhood changed over the years; but Moses Wilder, and then his son Abraham, were able to maintain a prospering business making and repairing tools used in the neighboring quarry. The Wilder shop was moved to Old Sturbridge Village in 1957, and the daily trade of a country blacksmith, thriving in uneasy times, can still be seen there.
Excerpted from Old Sturbridge Village Visitor's Guide
© 1993-2004 Old Sturbridge Inc.
A day trip on Veterans Day 2009 to Old Sturbridge Village located in Massachusetts. It was a classic November Day, mostly overcast with minimal filtered sun, a stiff breeze, constant hazard falling browned oak leaves . . . perfect for New England in November.
Another beautiful community event at MLF's Community First! Village using craft, farming & food to build bridges between volunteers and the homeless. We believe that hospitality, shared work & a common table are vital to our ultimate purpose of connecting human to human, heart to heart.
Only place in town where the teachers, craftsmen, cooks and leaders are homeless and there to serve you, the volunteer. Come on out and help us build a community that will change hundreds of lives for the better!
Sign up at: mlf.org/volunteer
This is what used to be the town of Buffalo Lake. Built in 1938, this is the blacksmith business which is the only original building letf.
A new volunteer event happening every other Saturday morning this summer at the MLF Village. A small team of learning blacksmiths (both volunteers and homeless friends) trying our hands at metal beautifications for the Village and then joining in the Genesis Garden program's amazing Cowboy Brunch after! It's a beautiful thing!