Interview with a blacksmith - How to basic blacksmith skills

Blacksmithing with Hammerhand

We would like to compare the blacksmith of yester year to the current day.

With we can discover many of the tools and unique material requirements and compare to help gain a better understanding what it would take to continue this occupation during a major collapse.
 

NOTE:
Smithing just means to smite or strike.
Iron is the black metal so as to why it is called blacksmithing