Smither Striker

Today we did exercises in striking

which i am pretty experinced in thanks to my 

many months striking for richard. Not everyone

was quite on my level, a few people really struggled

with the commands and keeping a 

smooth rythem.

I wont lie some of the techinques

i saw richard would have thrown them out of the

forge for good.

Smither Striker is the process of

a Smither using a Striker to put texture, draw

down large stock even cut section off. A

Striker is an other blacksmith with a

sledgehammer of any size, ive used

right the way up to 20 pounds.

A system of non verbal and a few verbal

commands is used to show where you want

the striker to hit and how hard.

A few basic commands.

• Start - When you want a striker to start hitting either tap your hammer on the anvil and then strike the metal showing him to follow it up with a sledge blow.
• Stop - To stop lay your hammer on the anvil side ways shows him to stop
• Checking the metal - If you want a chance to check the metal strike away from the metal on the anvil, the striker will follow your hammer striking the anvil keeping rythem.

There are a few different techinques

but really thats which you prefer.

 

 

 

 

Just a few videos of a bit of striking with Joe,

he hasnt got much experince with keeping

a rythem but he can hit well enough.