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On behalf of Expert Village I'm Terry and I'm here today to show you the workings of
a forge. Ok some of the tools we work with when using a forge or working with metal,
this is a universal anvil, if you look right here you can use this. You can take a flat
piece of metal heat it in the forge, lay it in there, and pound it out and it will provide
you with a pouring cup or spoon. This here some of you may have noticed what it is, this
is a fireplace shovel, and you can make a fireplace shovel out of this. You get your
piece of flat metal up in the forge and you lay it in there and pound it out and then
you weld your handle on it or whatever. On the other side we all like to eat and you
can even make a spoon. You can pound a spoon out of silver, out of tin, or anything you
want to. And then you have the other areas here that you can make bowls or cups or you
know, you just wanted to form something round. You can lay rods in these after they're heated
or you can lay square or flat bar in here and pound them. It's just you have some 90
degree angles here that you can pound out and then you have a slight S curve right here
for pounding also so an anvil is a good thing besides a flat iron to have. Over here we
have our tongs, we have one, two, three, four, five, five different sets of tongs for basically
for handling the metal in and out of the forge the rods and what have you for working the
steel. This has like a duck bill on it where you can actually do some bending and forming.
You won't learn it overnight but you just have to mess around with it. It takes a few
months or sometimes even years of experience just to get all the aspects.