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What is the name of the iron block on which a blacksmith hammers red-hot iron?
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The main tool on which a blacksmith hammers hot iron or steel is an anvil. And the modern anvil is made of, or at least faced with, steel. This creates a hard steel work surface. To help shape the hot iron a blacksmith might use:
- A Bickern
- swage block
- A die set
- or any other hard material that would help shape the hot iron
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no difference
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What is the name of a iron block on which a blacksmith hammers red-hot iron?
Do you mean an anvil? According to Wikipedia: "An anvil is a basic tool, a block with a hard surface on which another object is struck."
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What is the method to bend horseshoes in colonial time?
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Carpenter or any ither wood worker. However, the question should be iron is to blacksmith as wood id to? If wood was to carpenter as blacksmith is to iron, then we are thikning of bizzarro world.
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Hammering hot iron to change its shape is called forging. Hammer blows force movement of iron crystals into different arrangements. If it's hot enough then the strain developed by hammering the iron crystals is relieved by recrystallization
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A blacksmith will do this.
What are blacksmith tools made out of?
iron
