[TheForge] Historical blacksmithing

[Saint Phlip]

Guys, you really need to quit falling into the trap of thinking that
everything in history is how you were taught in school.

Like anything else, the position of Blacksmiths in various communities
varied quite a bit, depending on your when and where. In the area I'm
recreating, blacksmiths (of both genders!!!) were considered petty
nobility. In other places, they were considered craftsmen (or women)
or servants, or in a few cases, slaves.

Please, don't generalize all of history based on what happened in
Europe for a couple hundred years- there's much more out there to
discover.

-- 
Saint Phlip

So, you think your data is safe?
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Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Priorities:

It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.

.I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary
notices I have read with pleasure. -Clarence Darrow