Saturday, Feb 6, 2010
February 8th, 2010
Great day of blacksmithing at the farm. The Triangle chapter of ABANA met her today, and it was a good meeting with a lot of interesting work getting done. The main project was making nail-headers, i.e., a tool for making nails. Now, to be sure, hand-forged nails are not in great demand for construction these days, but the tools and techniques were important in the history of the craft. We had several men working at the main forge creating the tools, and I set up my portable forge outside with an anvil for actually making nails. It was a good setup for both learning and doing. Chris served a wonderful lunch, and everybody went home happy, I think.