SReynolds Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 History Channel; The Men Who Built America If you have seen this presentation you know what I'm about to mention........... The blacksmith along the side of the street, on the sidewalk no less. Banging on a cold horseshoe. The anvil was bouncing upon a wooden whisky barrel, about stomach height. That is how Andrew Carnegie got the vision to make a bridge for the PRR from steel to span the miss river. He SHOULD have gotten the idea to inform that poor sap of a blacksmith to set his anvil upon a tree stump and tie it down tight about knuckle heigh.............and to heat the horseshoe in a forge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maillemaker Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I laughed at that scene too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWHII Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I just rolled my eyes. :rolleyes: and shook my head and told the wife not to get me started. Hollywood <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SReynolds Posted February 1, 2013 Author Share Posted February 1, 2013 Anyone notice the HUGE electric motors setting inside the steel mill when they show the guys walking through the dim/coal smoke filled light of the foundry? It was supposed to be the 1800,s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielC Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 While these are good examples of Hollywood interpretations of blacksmithy, I laughed more at the dwarven smiths in The Hobbit (ok it was meant to be fantastical and was actually pretty cool). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzputin Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 While these are good examples of Hollywood interpretations of blacksmithy, I laughed more at the dwarven smiths in The Hobbit (ok it was meant to be fantastical and was actually pretty cool). That ring of them all pounding away at the same piece and that apparently unfazed one who just held up a glowing hot piece to be pounded by those two huge hammers like it was just plastic and the hammers feathers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbruce Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Most likely Hollywood but could be a theater prop...... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 that apparently unfazed one who just held up a glowing hot piece to be pounded by those two huge hammers like it was just plastic and the hammers feathers... I LOVED that quick scene. The lovely wife cracked up as well. I keep trying to figure out how that set up would work, given the fantasy, dwarves and magic component of the whole series. Some sort of production work, the twin hammers on a regular cycle, a series of...lets say hammer heads, being punched and eyed and the final shaping of the faces (Brian Brazeal rounding hammer faces of course) being done in one fell swoop by the twin hammers. How the dwarf was holding the hot metal could be an issue, but the magical/fantasy element could explain (or spell) that away. the smith not looking up and holding the work perfectly centered was impressive. The later scenes did show a significant number of scenes where the dwarves all work together with almost subconcious connection to one another. Combine that with a 350 year life span and you'd get some really accomplished smithing, fantasy/magical components allowed for, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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