Making tools 300 years ago

ken · 2004-08-21T12:19:21+00:00

I started to wonder how tey did things that far back. Like how didthey make files? I've looked around the internet and found just aboutnothing. I have only a limited amount of available tim eon computer sohas anybody found an links?

Aug 21, 2004 25 Replies

Rate this thread:

pyotr filipivich 22 years ago

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show snipped-for-privacy@chromisdesigns.com (Bob Edwards) wrote back on 23 Aug 2004

06:31:29 -0700 in rec.crafts.metalworking :

That is the rub. The real change wasn't just cheap iron, but cheap steel. I've been told that prior to the 1600s, iron cost like silver, steel like gold - at least in terms of comparable purchasing power. We've dropped the cost of steel from where it was just used for cutting edges, to now we make nails of it, and other "disposable" items.

tschus pyotr

Vote

Tim Auton 22 years ago

I get the point you're making, but if I was going cart a damn anvil about, I'd make sure I found space for a couple of files too.

Tim

Vote

Gerald Miller 22 years ago

This is how I learned from Grandad (shoed his first plow horse at eight years of age) naphtha gas blow torch (luxury item) a bunch of used bricks, a couple hammers, a piece of rail, an old vice and whatever scrap he could turn up among the neighbours. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

Vote

Old Nick 22 years ago

They had one huge advantage over us. There is no way we can make tools

300 years ago now. ***************************************************** I have decided that I should not be offended by anybody's behaviour but my own......the theory's good, anyway.

Vote