![]() It's mainly smaller and lighter since I have to carry it a farther distance and since the school has a bunch of tools that I can use so taking my own is oriented toward the tools like hammer and tongs since I need to get used to them, and the schools tongs really suck. Going to blacksmith association meetings/workshops requires one group of tools, while going to class, for whatever reason, seems to require a completly different set of tools. If you're an eternal student, like me, then you've got a half dozen (or more) tool bags of different sizes, shapes, configuration, etc. If you're a "forge-bound" blacksmith who does all of his/her work in the smithy, then you'll have a number of tool boxes each containing an assortment of tools of the same general type (i.e., hammers, tongs, etc.). ![]() ![]() One of the first things you need to figure out is what is your tool box for. So I'll limit this discussion to basic hand tools and an occassional semi-weird tool that does something strange and special. By and large it's tough to throw your anvil, forge, and/or vise into your tool box and go to work. Someone once said the most important tools to the blacksmith in order of importance, hammer, anvil, forge, vise, tongs.
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