Yes, some would work shoeing horses and making various farming tools and should war come (Which is most often did) kings or various nobility would place a commission for a certain number of weapons (IE: we need 50 swords forged, you will get half your payment to get the materials to get started and half once we've received the weapons) Blacksmiths also forged armor quite often, in fact some kings would pay fortunes for a good blacksmith's talents in forging his army's gear or to teach others the craft, if not both, in these cases they would probably be forging almost nothing but weapons, armor and shoes for horses and other various goods for the king.
Blacksmiths make hot fore.
Yes, blacksmiths made and still make shields
blacksmiths make items using metal
yes
Blacksmiths were important because they were the ones who were able to make iron into useful items.
in the roman time the blacksmiths only had anything big and metal to make other big metal things. metal was very popular in the roman period and so the blacksmiths had an easy time
to make metal stuff
alot
Blacksmiths in 1870 would make wagon wheels, horse shoes and farm implements. Almost any ironwork was done by the blacksmith.
The blacksmiths make horse shoes
yes for dragons.
Do you mean apprentices or masters