How Did New Jersey Get Its Name? 24/7 Temporeleased a report explaining how all 50 states got their name, and believe it or not New Jersey is named after an island near England. English Statesmen and colonist George Carteret received a Grant from the Duke of York which included the land ...
How Did New Jersey Get Its Name? 24/7 Temporeleased a report explaining how all 50 states got their name, and believe it or not New Jersey is named after an island near England. English Statesmen and colonist George Carteret received a Grant from the Duke of York which included the land ...
There are similar patterns that multiple blacksmiths make, although they might have different names. What one smith calls a Rose pattern, another may call a Raindrop, for example. If the pattern names sound too delicate for the nature of the business, there are other options too. Damasteel ...
Now I know this analogy only goes so far, but I hope you get the idea. Let me first start off by giving a brief summary of what we did this year: Monsters.Rent: When we first started 2024, we had just closed up shop on our previous business model of Monsters.Rent. Obviously...
Blacksmiths of the old days were taught by apprenticeship and spent decades honing and mastering their craft. Reddit.com/myrmekochoria If you’re looking for an example of the kind of skill performed by blacksmiths, look no further than this 16th-century German axe. It’s...
To create higher qualities of iron, blacksmiths would require better furnaces. The technology gradually developed over the centuries. By the mid-1300s, taller furnaces and manually operated bellows allowed European furnaces to burn hot enough to not just soften iron, but actually melt it. ...
How did they manage to weld? The process they used is known as forge welding. To start the process, blacksmiths would heat the metal until it was bright red in color (but still not at its melting point). The blacksmiths would then place the two pieces, slightly overlapping, on an anvil...
Nails tell their own story. Rose Head nails were forged individually by blacksmiths in the 1700s. After shaping the nail, the blacksmith placed it in a heading tool and delivered several hammer blows to form the distinctive head. Cut nails were prominent from 1790 to 1890. Sharp-ended ...
Nails tell their own story. Rose Head nails were forged individually by blacksmiths in the 1700s. After shaping the nail, the blacksmith placed it in a heading tool and delivered several hammer blows to form the distinctive head. Cut nails were prominent from 1790 to 1890. Sharp-ended ...
During the emergence of estates in Western Europe, tattoos were often used to signify the type of activity their bearers were involved in (e.g. blacksmiths, weavers, millers, and many other artisans). However, it was sailors who were the main fans of tattoos. Being superstitious, they wante...