[TheForge] Iraqi blacksmiths at work

[Jerry Frost]

From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


>
>> http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3920/Iraqi_Blacksmiths_Putting_Metal_to_Fire
>
>     Karbala, IRAQ: An Iraqi blacksmith displays a 
> pair of hammers
>     made he made in his workshop in the southern city 
> of Karbala 18
>     May 2006.
>
> Hammers?  Anybody have any idea what he's displaying? 
> Looks like it
> might be cast from copper or spent brass.  But what 
> kind of "hammers"
> would those things be?
>
> - Mike
>


No telling Mike. Maybe mallets to ring bells, gongs or 
some such?

I think it's just a mix of foundry and smithy shots and 
the reporter doesn't know the difference.

Frosty
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