Safety
These protect your ears from loud sounds when striking or grinding metal.
What are ear plugs?
Step one before working with anything in the shop.
What is put on the appropriate PPE?
A very heavy tool used to support and shape hot metal.
What is an anvil?
Used to protect your eyes from debris and sparks.
What are safety glasses?
First step before metal can be placed in the forge.
What is heat up the forge?
The primary handheld tool that strikes and moves metal.
What is a hammer?
Term used to describe proper shop attire.
What is PPE?
The step that involves cooling the metal at a rapid rate in a liquid.
What is quenching?
The tool used to hold and transport hot pieces of metal.
What are tongs?
The standard casual clothing needed when working in the shop.
What are long pants, long sleeves, & closed-toe work shoes?
A cooling and heating method used to soften metal.
What is annealing?
A machine using a belt to clean up a piece of metal.
What is a belt grinder?
The first response to a mild burn.
What is run under cool/room-temp water.
The action for removing scale and creating a clean finish.
What is grinding?
Special tool used to punch or widen holes in a metal piece.
What is a drift?