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Colonial Blacksmiths

Colonial Blacksmiths. By:Ethan Purrington. Skills of a Blacksmith. Blacksmiths need good hand-eye coordination and a good eye for shapes and designs. To be a Blacksmith you have to be at least 13 years of age. How they made stuff.

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Colonial Blacksmiths

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  1. Colonial Blacksmiths By:Ethan Purrington

  2. Skills of a Blacksmith • Blacksmiths need good hand-eye coordination and a good eye for shapes and designs. • To be a Blacksmith you have to be at least 13 years of age.

  3. How they made stuff • A Blacksmith made stuff by heating metal so it gets soft enough to shape. • A Blacksmith takes a piece of iron and put it into the fire for a few seconds until it gets white hot and hits the metal with that to shape it

  4. What Blacksmiths usually made • Black smiths usually made farming tools

  5. The kind of people who were blacksmiths • Being a Blacksmith was a lower class job. • Blacksmiths usually come from a poor family

  6. Tools of a Blacksmith • Blacksmiths use tools like hammers, chisels, cleavers, punches, bellows, shouldering iron, files, and tongs. • Tools like hammers were used to hit the iron and shape the it into what he wants. • Tools like tongs were used to pick up the hot iron that you can’t touch.

  7. What Blacksmiths wore • Blacksmiths wore thick, heavy trousers and solid leather boots • The thickness of the clothes prevented them from getting burnt.

  8. Were Blacksmiths alone • Sometimes Blacksmiths were not alone because they had a partner. • Also, they would have costumers who want to buy his stuff

  9. The importance of a Blacksmith • Blacksmiths were very important because they had to make pots, pans, candle holders, furniture, and many other things. • A lot of people greatly respected the Blacksmith because they depended on his work and especially the rich people.

  10. Iron made today • Now a days, most of the metal and iron things are made from factories unlike in the colonial times when they had to use a fire and do things by hand. • I bet it wasn’t easy then.

  11. Bye • byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!I have a lamp to fix.

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