Hardy Tools on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Hardy tools, also known as anvil tools or bottom tools, are
Hardy tools, also known as anvil tools or bottom tools, are metalworking
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scal ...
tool
A tool is an object that can extend an individual's ability to modify features of the surrounding environment or help them accomplish a particular task. Although many animals use simple tools, only human beings, whose use of stone tools dates ba ...
s used in anvils. A hardy has a square shank, which prevents it from rotating when placed in the anvil's hardy hole.''The Complete Bladesmith'', p. 10 The term "hardy", used alone, refers to a hot cutting chisel used in the square hole of the anvil. Other bottom tools are identified by function. Typical hardy tools include chisels
A chisel is a tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge (such that wood chisels have lent part of their name to a particular grind) of blade on its end, for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal by hand, stru ...
and bending drifts
In applied mechanics, bending (also known as flexure) characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element.
The structural element is assumed to ...
. They are generally used with a matching top tool.
Different hardy tools are used to form and cut metal. The swage is used to make metal a specific cross section, usually round for final use as nails, bolts, rods or rivets. The fuller is used to stretch or help bend metal, and make dents and shoulders. Many hardy shapes have corresponding hammer like tools with head shapes to help form metal, called top tools, for example a "V"-shaped swage is used with an inverted "V"-shaped hammer like top tool to form iron into an angle shape.
Notes
References
*External links
Metalworking hand tools {{Tool-stub