[TheForge] Blacksmith -Farrier Yak?

Sun Sep 7 17:20:00 2003

As I understand it, it is kind of a blurred line. There have specialized
farriers since the 1500's, but there were many fewer. Their numbers
started to increase gradually throughout history, with farriers (like
most specialized smiths) almost exclusively in cities until relatively
recently, i.e. within the last 100 years. In rural areas, the blacksmith
would still do horseshoeing in addition to his regular work, and in
extremely secluded areas the blacksmith would have served a double
purpose until horses were largely replaced with tractors. Then they
moved on to being blacksmiths and mechanics. Someone will probably
correct me on this, I request it because I have been giving this line at
demos and would like to know if I am feeding people bullplop.
Happy Hammering,
Carl Tappan

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:45, [email protected] wrote:
> I have a presentation to give on Blacksmithing before a local group and I was 
> wondering if we could agree on when the "Blacksmith name gave away to Farrier 
> being the one that shoes horses etc.
> 
> Anyone else that has any insight on giving a presentation on the subject of 
> blacksmithing and ironwork would be appreciated.
> 
> Mike Ivey
> Savannah River Forge
> Augusta, Georgia 
> [email protected]
> 
> Alex Bealer
> 
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