A blacksmith’s anvil is a large block ... You will sometimes see anvils with different shapes, perhaps with protrusions on their sides or with a horn at each end, these will either be of an ...

It’s called the anvil horn and is the blacksmith’s friend when bending ... and hammer it over a curved profile to the intended shape. A gentler touch is required than when you are shaping ...

Here is where you shape parts. Lay metal across the ... The pritchel hole in the anvil enables the blacksmith or farrier to drive the pritchel through without damaging the anvil in the process.

But I couldn’t shape it, and so large swaths ... delivered in rapid succession a 275-pound anvil, tools, materials and four 50-pound boxes of blacksmith’s coal shipped from Pennsylvania.

In his smithy workshop are two anvils, one of which was the inspiration ... A dagger found in Egypt, dating to 1350 BCE, shows evidence that an early blacksmith had heated and hammered it into shape.