A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut. Blacksmiths produce
Picture of Vince J. Heilman (1918–2000) taken by the local newspaper around 1970
Statue of a blacksmith (Monument to John Cockerill in Brussels).
Smithing process in Mediterranean environment, Valencian Museum of Ethnology
Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content in contrast to that of cast iron, or 0.25% for low-carbon "mild" steel. Wrought iron is manufactured by heating and melting high-carbon cas
Blacksmith
…A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such…
Schematic drawing of a puddling furnace
The microstructure of wrought iron, showing dark slag inclusions in ferrite