hardy hole

Square hole, anvil

A hardy hole is the square hole in the top of a blacksmith's anvil, designed to hold tools with matching square shanks.

Hardy tools—chisels, fullers, swages—drop into this hole and stay upright, letting the smith work hot metal against them: He set the hot rod over the hardy hole and cut it with a blow.

tooling

swage

Tool for shaping metal

shankLower leg segment
interchangeableAble to replace another
drop-inUnscheduled brief visit

seated · fitted · matched · flatter · creaser · veining

blacksmithing

forge

Furnace for shaping metal

anvilMetal-shaping block
tongsHinged grasping utensil
hammerTool for striking nails

quenching · tempering · smithing · metalworking · iron · steel · billet · heat · furnace · workshop

anvil

scrolling

Moving display content vertically

squareRhombus with right angles
shankLower leg segment
farrierOne who shoes horses

tapering · flattening · punching · drifting · mandrel · heel · horn · step

Categories

blacksmithinganvil, anvils, forge, forges, bellows
anvil partsface, horn, heel, body, step

Opposites

anvil feature type

hardy holeround hole

Opening with curved edges

tool position in forging

hardy holehammer

Tool for striking nails

Family

harden, hardy, hardware, hardwood, hardiness, hardest, hardcover, hardback, hardily

Familiarity: Top 1,000,000
Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G