From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from
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Damascus, producing Damascus steel in the year 1900.  A
metalsmith or simply smith is a craftsman fashioning tools or
works of art out of various metals.  As an English suffix,
-smith connotes a meaning of specialized craftsmen — for
example, wordsmith and tunesmith are nouns synonymous with
writer or songwriter, respectively.   In pre-industrialized
times, smiths held high or special social standing since they
supplied the metal tools needed for farming (especially the
plough) and warfare. This was especially true in some West
African cultures.  Types of smiths[edit]  Illustration by
Theodor Kittelsen for Johan Herman Wessel's The Smith and the
Baker  Types of smiths include:[1]  Artisans and
craftpeople[edit]  Coppersmith Abdón Punzo in his workshop in
Santa Clara del Cobre, Mexico  The ancient traditional tool of
the smith is a forge or smithy, which is a furnace designed to
allow compressed air