The time it takes a blacksmith to build a knife

To hand-build a kitchen knife, it takes more than 30 times to harden, polish, open the bladeand more than a dozen processes, taking two-and-a-half days to complete, or two to three hours for a shorter one.

Blacksmith, an artisan who makes or forges iron, blacksmithing is also an ancient profession that uses iron as a raw material and relies on a small hammer to create a wide variety of tools of production and household items to support their families.

Blacksmiths generally have a smithy of their own, with a furnace for calcining iron billets, and a large hand-pulled bellows at the joint of the furnace, mainly used to control the temperature and strength of the fire, generally known as the control of the fire.

The fuel used in the furnace is charcoal and coal, the requirements for charcoal and coal are relatively high, only about ten kilograms of coal out of a hundred kilograms of coal can be used to make iron, and the charcoal that can be used to make iron is called iron charcoal, and a blacksmith will usually take one or two apprentices with him, and the apprentice's main job is to use a sledgehammer, which is five or six times bigger than that of his own master, to help the master to turn the billet of iron that has been cooked in the furnace and is used to make tools into the desired shape. The apprentice has no work to do at the final stage of molding the tool.

Methods:

The smithy is also known as the "blacksmith's forge". The so-called "store" is just a broken house, the house in the center of a large fireplace, the furnace set up a bellows, bellows a pull, the wind into the fireplace, the fire in the hearth straight up.

To forge the iron first in the fireplace red, and then moved to the big iron pier, the master of the master hammer, underhand sledgehammer forging.

The upper hand is experienced, the right hand holds a small hammer, the left hand holds the iron tongs, in the process of forging, the upper hand should be visually constantly turning the iron, so that it can be square iron into a round iron bar or a thick iron bar into a long thin iron bar.

It can be said that in the hands of the old blacksmith, hard iron into square, round, long, flat, pointed can be.

The finished iron products have with the traditional production methods have agricultural tools, such as plows, rakes, hoes, pickaxes, sickles, etc., but also some of the daily necessities, such as kitchen knives, spatulas, planing knives, scissors, etc., in addition to such as door rings, bubble nails, door plugs, etc..