Blacksmithing terms
Miscellaneous
- Iron in the hat
- A traditional blacksmithing fund-raiser. Members bring tools, materials, or other items to each meeting. These are all placed on a common table, and tickets are sold for a drawing. The holder of the first ticket drawn may select the item of their choice from the table, and drawing continues until all items have been taken. The proceeds go (in our case) to the building fund; the origin of the name "Iron in the hat" is obscure.
Forge terms
- Red heat
- Orange heat
- White heat
- Black heat
- Cherry heat
- Sweating heat
- Light sparking heat
- Coal
- Coke
- Charcoal
- Clinkers
- Firepot
- Grate
- Tueyre
- Blower
- Bellows
Tools
- Flux
- Hardie
- Fuller
- Hot cut
- Cold cut
- Cross pein hammer
- Straight peen hammer
- Ball pein hammer
- Turning hammer
- Raising hammer
- Flatter
- Sets
- Punches
- Nail header
- Tongs (MANY kinds)
- Swage block
- A block of metal, essentially a square of several inches depth, which has numerous grooves and depressions into which metal can be driven. Swage blocks are used to work iron into specialized shapes. The edges of swage blocks usually have round slots in incremented sizes, while theirfaces have depressions suitable for beating sheet metal into spoons, ladles and similar shapes.
Parts of the anvil
- Horn
- Face
- Step
- Waist
- Hardie hole
- Pritchell hole
- Basin foot
- Clipping horn
- Ear
- Shelf
- Stump
Metalworking Operations
- Drawing out
- Upsetting
- Forge welding
- Fullering
- Slitting
- Swaging
- Quenching
- Hardening
- Drifting
- Punching
