The knife-spine grinding machine is used to shape the back of the blade.
To do so, the knife maker guides the back of the blade along a rotating grinding...
Once the metal has been forged, it is grounded and then filed down by hand to finish it. The lime is made of steel.
Finally the workpiece is transported...
The electric link bending machine made in 1939 by the manufacturer Malmedie & Co., produces single chain links.
First, a wire is unwound from a coil and...
A planer is a type of metalworking machine tool that uses linear relative motion between the workpiece and a single-point cutting tool. A planer holds...
The planing machine from the 1920s is a machine tool used for planing work on long iron work pieces. The machine brings the work pieces into the desired...
The punching press, manufactured by Leinhaas in the 1980s is applied in the first steps of the blade production: it unwinds a coil of steel strip and punches...
The electric riveting machine manufactured by Adam Baumüller GmbH in the 1980s is used to mount the knife blade onto the knife handle with rivets. To...
The rod cutter from the 1920s cuts approximately 3m long steel rods into accurately dimensioned pieces, called “pins” which can then be bent into chain...
In the 1920s the saw blade sharpening machine sharpened the circular saws in the Jacob Döring Tool Factory in Hagen (Germany, North Rihe-Westphalia)....
The “Feinpließtbock” from the 1910s is an electric sharpening machine which is used, generally by trained operators, to create a special finish (precision-grinding)...
The sound of hand bellows in operation in the smithy. The recording was realized in the National Museum of Agriculture and Agricultural-Food Industry in...
