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- Cloth: Heavyweight tan right twill
- Embroidery: Silk continuous
- Border: Clockwise, round & dense
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- Design: Right end of anvil body is square, base of anvil appears to have lips, center of mouth embroidery slanted left, closed mouth, horn is chiseled shape and rounded
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- Back: Brown imprint
Item Name: Blacksmithing 1913 - 1921
Item ID: Blacks-AH2
Collector Rating: 1
Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge
Requirements June 1911 until October 1914
1. Upset and weld a one-inch iron rod.
2. Make a horseshoe.
3. Know how to tire a wheel, use a sledge-hammer and forge, shoe a horse correctly and roughshoe a horse.
4. Be able to temper iron and steel.
Requirements October 1914 until April 1952
1. Make an open link of 3/8-inch stock.
2. Forge a chain hook out of 3/4 x 1/2-inch soft steel, or 3/4-inch round iron.
3. Make a bolt out of 1/2-inch stock.
4. Bend and weld three links and form them into a chain, these links to be fastened to the hook of Requirement 2 by a ring, and links and ring to be made out of 3/8-inch round iron.
5. Make a straight lap weld of 1/4 x 1-inch stock.
6. Make a cold chisel out of 5/8-inch hexagonal tool steel.
7. Temper a rock drill.
8. Explain how to harden and temper a cold chisel.