[TheForge] opinions please, 2 Qs

[Mike Spencer]

> There have been commercial forging hammers that used opposed moving
> heads.

Never saw one of them.  Er..., except in Middle Earth.

Has anyone noticed the very brief scene in The Hobbit movie?  Dwarves
busy mining, sorting gems, engraving and forging.  One guy holds up a
glowing piece of iron, two huge opposed hammers hung helve-up swing
together on it and rebound apart.  Great shower of sparks and the
dwarven smith looks approvingly at the still-glowing workpiece.  Cool.

I captured the frames from the DVD.  Not actually very much to see in
static detail.  Well, that's the magic of *motion* pitchers.

While you're there, notice how the dwarven prince, when he has to take
a day job, forges with great overhead blows, 8 to 10 pound hammer, on
a thin, nearly finished sword blade.  And it looks like his hammer is
hitting on the sharp heel of its face.

Well, it all looks great as a movie, if you're not some kind of
super-sensitive blacksmith pedant critic. :-)


- Mike

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