[TheForge] novice to do list

[J. Petrila]

that is a huge question and rather open-ended.

Just to cover it briefly in the USA it was much different than in Europe.
 Many immigrants were blacksmiths so brought that trade from home..

In Europe, most smiths specialized in a particular field.. Wrought iron,
tools, armor, etc, etc..

Once in the USA and in larger cities. They might be able to setup a shop
based on what they did in their old country..  But often they became
general smiths simply because working metal under hammer is a universal
skill set.

Here there was the apprenticeship system for many just starting out and
this lead to the journeyman who was supposed to move around from shop to
shop to learn from other smiths until he was ready to settle down and open
his own shop..  The line between journeyman and master is kind of fuzzy in
the USA with Master becoming an owner of their very own shop which then
leads to having an apprentice to continue the process..




On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 8:55 PM terry l. ridder <terrylr at blauedonau.com>
wrote:

> hello
>
> Is there a novice blacksmith to do list?
>
> Thinking back to Tudor or Victorian Times
> What tasks would a novice blacksmith expected to know?
>
> early 20th century North America what would a novice blacksmith be
> expected to know?
>
> How did the blacksmith trade/occupation change through the ages?
>
>
> --
> terry l. ridder ><>
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