This short film is a Blacksmithing demonstration in Peru. The blacksmith is presenting the process of forging a decorative object (famous NAZCA LINES) using nothing but traditional methods of forging and without the help of modern power tools. It whoud be nice to have this sort of demonstrations over here in Romania to… althow there is no real interes about this craft at least I whoud love to participate at such a demonstration and anything regarding the process of forging iron .

The explosion or the fireball how it is often called can be seen somewhere around he middle of the clip. What takes a good few hours to be machined can me done faster and cheaper by forging with a drop hammer. This process is also resulting into less wasted material. Very impressive working with so much power. The fireball is formed on purpose …the forger throws forging oil over the iron for two reasons. To remove the scale that is forming during the heating process with the blast and to prevent the iron from sticking to the dies. Very impressive movie i hope you like it to.

A different kind of fire balls can be seen here :<a href=”http://www.webworks.ro/scamatorie-cu-focul/”>Blogul lui Zalog C</a>

You can call it extreme blacksmithing work. Everybody heard of how strong a katana sword is .This small clip shows exactly this thing. The process of obtaining such a blade is strongly related to the spirit of the blacksmith and it’s a very fine art. This movie does nothing else than proving the true value of the craft.

Kattana vs machine GUN

This is another black and white movie showing how forging work was done in 1904. They where welding the iron in this manner not only because in that period welding equipment was not standard in the shops but also because this process is resulting with a very good bond between the materials. I can only admire the work that this people do and look at them with respect for the hard work that they used to do so easy.