Fig. 1: Blacks-AH3-Front
- Cloth: Heavyweight tan right twill
- Embroidery: Silk continuous
- Border: Clockwise, round & dense
Fig. 2: Blacks-AH3-Magnified
- Design: Right end of anvil body is square, base of anvil appears to have lips, top and bottom lips vertical stitch, center stitching slanted right, center has straight top and bottom, horn is chiseled shape
Fig. 3: Blacks-AH3-Reverse
- Back: Brown imprint
Item Name: Blacksmithing 1913 - 1921
Item ID: Blacks-AH3
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.