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."
That is called an ANVIL and most blacksmiths would have had at least 3 of them.
A blacksmith heats and hammers iron into the shape and size required.
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 Bickernswage blockA die setor any other hard material that would help shape the hot iron
There doesn't seem to be real name for a blacksmith's hammer. (At least I have not found any specific names for it....) As a blacksmith, one of the most common hammers I use is called a cross pein. The other is a ball pein. Some companies will call a cross pein hammer a blacksmith hammer.
Blacksmith Tools of his trade Forge – furnace for heating metal Anvil – heavy iron block used to hammer metal into shape Hammer – used to bend hot metal into shape Tongs – for grabbing hot metal The blacksmith used a brick hearth with bellows to make a coal fire. Coal fire heated iron bars. The blacksmith used hammers weighing as much as 12 pounds to hammer the iron bars into horseshoes.
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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
A blacksmith will do this.
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