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.

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.

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.

The weld was begun with the taps, but often the joint is weak and incomplete, so the smith will again heat the joint to welding temperature and work the weld with light blows to " set " the weld and finally to dress it to the shape.

When the light-straw color reaches the edge, the smith will usually dip the steel in water, to stop the process.

At times, smiths will fit a second tool to this hole to allow the smith more flexibility when using more than one anvil tool.

As it is well known that the Dwarfs will always remember a favor ( or a foe ), the High King of the Dwarfs, Kurgan, ordered the commissioning of the Runefangs, by the legendary Dwarf smith Alaric the Mad to be gifted to the Elector Counts.

Judge Brian said, “ If I bail my horse to a smith to shoe and he bails it to another smith who damages the horse an action will not lie against him .” The second party was a stranger to the bailment, but the other justices were opposed to this opinion of Brian.

It must first be taken to a smith in a town which will then upgrade the weapon for a fee.

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

The smith hero Völundr is identified as ' Ruler of Elves ' ( vísi álfa ) and ' One among the Elven Folk ' ( álfa ljóði ), in the poem Völundarkviða, whose later prose introduction also identifies him as the son of a king of ' Finnar ', an Arctic people respected for their shamanic magic ( most likely, the sami ).

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

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.

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.

His apparent counterpart in Irish mythology, Goibniu, in addition to his duties as a smith, also takes on the role of a divine hero who brewed an ale of immortality and a wonderful architect.

Loki then goes to a group of dwarfs, the Sons of Ivaldi, who not only smith Sif's hair but also various other important objects owned by the gods, and the tale continues.

The smith. jr file also inherits the smith file's access control protection.

* Forge, also called a smithy, the workplace of a smith or a blacksmith

Characters can combine items by using " meat paste " ( a substance analogous to glue ), and can also cook food, mix cocktails and smith weapons and armor.

Rogues can also smith their class specific weapons to become lighter and cause more damage.

(* It may be noted in passing that O ' Donovan also records an Irish lore about Lon, the three-armed one-legged smith.

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* see also: smith ( metalwork )

Another important mythological figure is Weyland the smith, a figure who also appeared in other forms of Germanic mythology.

The word is also used, by extension, to mean the workplace of a smith or a blacksmith.

The smith now watches carefully to avoid overheating the metal.

The smith then carefully gauges the temperature by watching the tempering colors of the steel.

In this way, although it is less time-consuming than differential hardening with clay, once the process starts the smith must be vigilant, carefully guiding the heat.

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.

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 )).

" 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.

It shows de Doot, a smith, holding in one hand a kitchen knife, and in the other a large bladder stone the size and shape of an egg, set in gold.

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

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.

The smith refused as he had no licence, so Charles granted him one on the spot and was served his drink.

Each welding's heat oxidises some carbon, so the master smith had to make sure there was enough carbon in the starting mixture.

Even when a daishō contained a pair of blades by the same smith, they were not always forged as a pair or mounted as one.

As Aulë is a smith, he is the Vala most similar in thought and powers to Melkor, in that they each gloried in the fashioning of artful and original things.

One smith pulls out a bottle of beer, and they each take a drink.

Abandoning Minerva and wisdom they play court to the sooty smith Vulcan and his pots and pans,

More effective techniques for controlling undesirables without inconveniences to legitimate DEA users might include: recognizing legitimate DEAs for what they are ( they usually have a proper domain and a fixed prefix or suffix ), distinguishing them from short-lived, random throwaway address patterns or domains used by undesirables, wildcard banning ( e. g. if a real person Jonh Smith, using DEA, needs to be banned, he can be banned as john. smith *@( domain ) or even *@( domain ), based on their DEA pattern ).

If successful they meet a master smith, who forges the Salamander Stone for them.