How did blacksmiths make weapons?

Answer 1

Blacksmiths did not use weapons, but they made weapons by heating up metal to make it malleable and then hit it with a hammer to shape the weapon.

Answer 2

Tools included hammers, tongs, iron punches, horseshoe nails, an anvil, a forge worked by bellows and cold chisels and rasps.

The raw material was iron ore, sometimes with additional charcoal added to the forge to produce mild steel. This was an important feature of good-quality knife blades, for example, which sandwiched a thin layer of steel between layers of iron.

An apprentice would work the bellows behind the forge to increase the temperature and keep it constant. In a 12th century illustration (in the manuscript MS Latin 8846) the smith is shown wearing a leather gauntlet on his hand to protect him from the heat of the flames while he works on the softened metal. He holds a hammer and tongs, but does not have any kind of apron. His small iron anvil is stuck into a short length of tree trunk on the ground.

Answer 3

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during ww1 the army got around mostly by horse and used mules instead of trucks. blacksmiths shod the animals.

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