17 sounds with tag Forge
  • Air hammer, second recording

    Recorded with lover recording volume. It’s said that a skilled blacksmith can hold an egg between the hammer and the anvil. Air-power hammers use pneumatics...
  • Blacksmith Working at Möhkön Ruukki

    In the recording you will hear the traditional blacksmith working with iron in Möhkö, Ilomantsi Finland. There are different individual sounds of...
  • Blower of the forge

    Iron Working requires to heat up a piece of metal to a high temperature so it becomes easier to shape it by forging. A forge typically uses bituminous...
  • Eccentric press

    In the tool factory Krenzer in Ennepetal (Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia) the eccentric press from the 1950s is used to shape metals (punching and cutting...
  • Fire of the forge

    Iron Working requires to heat up a piece of metal to a high temperature so it becomes easier to shape it by forging. A forge typically uses bituminous...
  • Forging of hammer heads

    The recorded working noises here are the sounds made by the production of forging-hammer heads in the tool company Krenzer Hammer. It is the last open-die...
  • Shovel and bucket (forge)

    A forge typically uses bituminous coal, industrial coke or charcoal. Once specific coal for forging was the norm. But it had the disadvantage te be very...
  • Spring Hammer

    The spring hammer (manufacturer unknown) from the 1920s was originally used in a forge in Southern Westphalia for the purpose of metalworking. It belongs...
  • Trip hammer

    Trip hammer, Olofsfors recording 3

    This hammer is used to form the Wrought iron into bars. Sound cycle Sound 1: The hammer is lifted with an iron cog mounted on the water wheel axel. Sound...
  • Water poured on the fire (forge)

    Sprinkling water is poured on the hearth helps to concentrate the flame and prevents it from spreading too much. Sound : water is sprinckled on the...
  • Water smithy – forging with two hammers

    The sound of manual forging of steel; two blacksmiths are alternately hitting hot steel placed on the anvil with hammers. The recording was realized in...
  • Water smithy – performing holes

    The sound of manual punching of holes in hot steel. The recording was realized in the historical water smithy in Gdańsk (Oliwa district) constituting...