How to Use an Anvil to Forge Metal

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Terry and I'm here today to show you the workings of a forge. Ok some of the tools we work with when using a forge or working with metal, this is a universal anvil, if you look right here you can use this. You can take a flat piece of metal heat it in the forge, lay it in there, and pound it out and it will provide you with a pouring cup or spoon. This here some of you may have noticed what it is, this is a fireplace shovel, and you can make a fireplace shovel out of this. You get your piece of flat metal up in the forge and you lay it in there and pound it out and then you weld your handle on it or whatever. On the other side we all like to eat and you can even make a spoon. You can pound a spoon out of silver, out of tin, or anything you want to. And then you have the other areas here that you can make bowls or cups or you know, you just wanted to form something round. You can lay rods in these after they're heated or you can lay square or flat bar in here and pound them. It's just you have some 90 degree angles here that you can pound out and then you have a slight S curve right here for pounding also so an anvil is a good thing besides a flat iron to have. Over here we have our tongs, we have one, two, three, four, five, five different sets of tongs for basically for handling the metal in and out of the forge the rods and what have you for working the steel. This has like a duck bill on it where you can actually do some bending and forming. You won't learn it overnight but you just have to mess around with it. It takes a few months or sometimes even years of experience just to get all the aspects."