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<blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1849283" data-attributes="member: 6929">From what I've read, blacksmiths tended to make lots of their own tools - often making things up as they went along. There was a certain standard set, but for doing anything more elaborate than hitting iron with a hammer (like punching holes, making various types of weld, gripping funny-shaped pieces of iron etc etc), you'd quickly get into personalised territory.Also, at least one assistant. You need two hands to hold some items in place while hammering on them, and a lot of the time the senior blacksmith will be doing the holding while the apprentice does the brute hammering.I may be using information from more recent times than medieval, but they sound good and give you some insight. You don't walk into a shop and say 'I'd like to buy stock for a forge', you build a forge. Maybe with some help from another blacksmith, in making the initial tools you need to make further tools. (And that other blacksmith makes a handy plot hook, if you're into that sort of thing.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="s/LaSH, post: 1849283, member: 6929"] From what I've read, blacksmiths tended to make lots of their own tools - often making things up as they went along. There was a certain standard set, but for doing anything more elaborate than hitting iron with a hammer (like punching holes, making various types of weld, gripping funny-shaped pieces of iron etc etc), you'd quickly get into personalised territory. Also, at least one assistant. You need two hands to hold some items in place while hammering on them, and a lot of the time the senior blacksmith will be doing the holding while the apprentice does the brute hammering. I may be using information from more recent times than medieval, but they sound good and give you some insight. You don't walk into a shop and say 'I'd like to buy stock for a forge', you build a forge. Maybe with some help from another blacksmith, in making the initial tools you need to make further tools. (And that other blacksmith makes a handy plot hook, if you're into that sort of thing.) [/QUOTE]

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