* 1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith ( b. 1378 )

The forge is used by the smith to heat a piece of metal to a temperature where it becomes easier to shape, or to the point where work hardening no longer occurs.

The metal ( known as the " workpiece ") is transported to and from the forge using tongs, which are also used to hold the workpiece on the smithy's anvil while the smith works it with a hammer.

The mouths are custom made by the smith in various shapes to suit the gripping of various shapes of metal.

There was a smith to forge the rough shape, often a second smith ( apprentice ) to fold the metal, a specialist polisher ( called a togi ) as well as the various artisans that made the koshirae ( the various fittings used to decorate the finished blade and saya ( sheath ) including the tsuka ( hilt ), fuchi ( collar ), kashira ( pommel ), and tsuba ( hand guard )).

A " smith " of any type is one who shapes metal pieces, often using a forge or mould, into useful objects or to be part of a more complex structure.

* December 1 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor and metal smith ( b. 1378 )

In Greek mythology Procrustes ( Προκρούστης ) or " the stretcher hammers out the metal ", also known as Prokoptas or Damastes ( Δαμαστής ) " subduer ", was a rogue smith and bandit from Attica who physically attacked people by stretching them or cutting off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of an iron bed.

The theory all starts with a fragment of metal that was brought into the museum at Varberg in May 1932 by a master smith named Carl Andersson.

As an example of drawing, a smith making a chisel might flatten a square bar of steel, lengthening the metal, reducing its depth but keeping its width consistent.

A smith would therefore frequently turn the chisel-to-be on its side and hammer it back down — upsetting it — to check the spread and keep the metal at the correct width.

The smith will also carefully shape the mating faces so that as they are brought together foreign material is squeezed out as the metal is joined.

The smith now watches carefully to avoid overheating the metal.

The smith will commonly place the metal in the fire so as it can be seen without letting the surrounding air come into contact with the surface.

An experienced smith selects the finish based on the metal and intended use of the item.

At the end of the training, the Elven smith Rhunön would forge a sword made from a meteoric ore called brightsteel ( the concept is similar to the mythical metal adamantium ) for the trained Dragon Rider.

For example, in preparation for making a hammerhead, a smith would punch a hole in a heavy bar or rod for the hammer handle.

The hochogata was one of the tantō forms that Masamune ( an ancient sword smith whose name has become legend ) favored.

The name is related to the modern Welsh word gof ( blacksmith ), and so is also associated with the Welsh smith Gofannon from folklore.

The skin on some pieces bristles with black hair (...) A former smith from Poltava, Kulesh worked together with Centurashvili.

In this neopagan concept, the god is also referred to as Bran, a Welsh mythological figure, Wayland, the smith in Germanic mythology, and Herne, a horned figure from English folklore.

When Hephaestus was thrown from Olympus, whether cast out by Hera for his lameness or evicted by Zeus for taking Hera's side, the Oceanid Eurynome and the Nereid Thetis caught him and cared for him on the volcanic isle of Lemnos, while he labored for them as a smith, " working there in the hollow of the cave, and the stream of Okeanos around us went on forever with its foam and its murmur " ( Iliad 18. 369 ).

His mother was Achtan, daughter of Olc Acha, a smith ( or druid ) from Connacht.

The word " smith " derives from an old word, " smite " ( to hit ).

To clean the faces, protect them from oxidation, and provide a medium to carry foreign material out of the weld, the smith will sometimes use flux — typically powdered borax, silica sand, or both.

In Japan, from the legendary time of the famous smith Amakuni, hamons were originally straight and parallel to the edge, but by the twelfth century AD, smiths such as Shintogo Kunimitsu began producing hamons with very irregular shapes.

Harlech was established with a garrison of 36 men: a constable, 30 men, including 10 crossbowmen, a chaplain, a smith, carpenter and stonemason, and Master James was rewarded by being made the constable of Harlech from 1290 – 93.

As his family frowned on music being a person's sole trade, Picou trained and worked as a tin smith, including putting the copper sheeting on church steeples ; however soon Picou was so much in demand as a clarinetist that he made most of his living from music.

(" Seppo " is a popular boy's name and the Finnish word for smith " seppä " is derived from it, or vice versa.

The hamstrung smith Weyland from the front of the Franks Casket ( see text ).

Other suffixes are-eanu ( or-an ,-anu ), which indicates the geographical origin ( like Moldoveanu / Moldovan / Moldovanu " from Moldova ", Munteanu " from mountains ", Jianu " from Jiu river region ") and-aru ( or-oru ,-ar ,-or ), which indicates an occupation ( like Feraru " smith ", Morar " miller ").

Depiction of the hamstrung smith Weyland from the front of the Franks Casket. In the poem Deor there is a stanza which refers to an Old English version of the legend of Welund and his captivity at the court of Nithad:

* Seagoe Upper ( from Suidhe Gabha meaning " sitting place of the smith ")

" From a flat bar of soft iron, hand forged into a gun barrel ; laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools ; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest ; and supplied with a lock hammered to shape on the anvil ; an unknown smith, in a shop long since silent, fashioned a rifle which changed the whole course of world history ; made possible the settlement of a continent ; and ultimately Freed our country of foreign domination.

( Then ) began his reign Feosta ( Hephaestus ), whom the Egyptians called Svarog … during his rule, from the heavens fell the smith ’ s prongs and weapons were forged for the first time ; before that, ( people ) fought with clubs and stones.

( Then ) began his reign Feosta ( Hephaestus ), whom the Egyptians called Svarog … during his rule, from the heavens fell the smith ’ s prongs and weapons were forged for the first time ; before that, ( people ) fought with clubs and stones.

Ferrero () is a surname of Italian ( from Piedmont ) and Spanish origin that means " smith ," the person who works with iron, and may refer to:

Deritend ware jug and sherdsArchaeological evidence of small-scale industries in Birmingham appears from as early as the 12th century, and the first documentary evidence of craftsmen in the town comes from 1232, when a group of burgesses negotiating to be released from their obligation to help with the Lord's haymaking are listed as including a smith, a tailor and four weavers.

If a larger fire is necessary, the smith increases the air flowing into the fire as well as feeding and deepening the coke heart.

The smith can also adjust the length and width of the fire in such a forge to accommodate different shapes of work.

His name can be compared with the Old Irish gobae ~ gobann ‘ smith ,’ Middle Welsh gof ~ gofein ‘ smith ,’ Gallic gobedbi ‘ with the smiths ,’ Latin faber ‘ smith ’ and with the Lithuanian gabija ‘ sacred home fire ’ and Lithuanian gabus ‘ gifted, clever ’.

His name can be compared with the Old Irish gobae ~ gobann ‘ smith ,’ Middle Welsh gof ~ gofein ‘ smith ,’ Gallic gobedbi ‘ with the smiths ,’ Latin faber ‘ smith ’ and with the Lithuanian gabija ‘ sacred home fire ’ and Lithuanian gabus ‘ gifted, clever ’.

To this end a smith will make sure the fire is a reducing fire: a fire where at the heart there is a great deal of heat and very little oxygen.

So the smith might probe into the fire with a bit of steel wire, prodding lightly at the mating faces.

The name is from a Proto-Celtic stem, * goban-' smith ' and can be compared with the Old Irish gobae ~ gobann ‘ smith ,’ Middle Welsh gof ~ gofein ‘ smith ,’ Gallic gobedbi ‘ with the smiths ,’ Latin faber ‘ smith ’ and with the Lithuanian gabija ‘ sacred home fire ’ and Lithuanian gabus ‘ gifted, clever ’.