American Blacksmithing, toolsmiths' and steelworkers' manual . head and down to the anvil; this is a perpen-dicular circle blow. Be sure not to give it a horizon-tal start; that is, with one hand close to the sledge theapprentice starts out either in the direction of thehorn or the butt end of the anvil, and then up whileboth hands should clasp the extreme end of the handleclose together the sledge should be dropped down tothe feet then up. The hold taken should not bechanged, but the hands held in the same place. (Seefigure 4.) For ordinary use a nine-pound sledge is heavyenough, a large sled
American Blacksmithing, toolsmiths' and steelworkers' manual . head and down to the anvil; this is a perpen-dicular circle blow. Be sure not to give it a horizon-tal start; that is, with one hand close to the sledge theapprentice starts out either in the direction of thehorn or the butt end of the anvil, and then up whileboth hands should clasp the extreme end of the handleclose together the sledge should be dropped down tothe feet then up. The hold taken should not bechanged, but the hands held in the same place. (Seefigure 4.) For ordinary use a nine-pound sledge is heavyenough, a large sledge will give sl bump, while a smallone will give a quick good blow, it is only occasion-ally and for special purposes a large sledge is needed,even an eight-pound sledge will do. Try it, and youwill be surprised how nice it works. y~. 38 MODERN BLACKSMITHING With these preliminary remarks we shall now beginto make a few tools. We will begin with the black-smiths tongs. I shall only give an idea how to forgethe jaws, and every man that needs to make them has. Fig. 4. seen enough of this simple tool to know what kind isneeded, and what he has not seen will suggest itselfto every sensible smith. MODERN BLACKSMITHING 39 BLACKSMITHS TONGS Take a piece of one-inch square Swede iron, holdthe iron diagonally over the anvil, with your left handa little toward the horn, the end of the iron to reachout over the outside edge of the anvil. Now strike sothat the sledge and hammer will hit half face over theanvil and the other half of the sledge and hammer out-
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