Craft Video Dictionary: Slotting and Drifting Forged Steel demonstrated by Heather McLarty

Craft Video Dictionary: Slotting and Drifting
Forming a hole through a metal bar that has been heated in a forge, then widening that hole. The blacksmith strikes the tapered end of a metal tool (the slotter) with a hammer to drive it into the metal to start the elongated hole. Then, the blacksmith shapes and enlarges the hole with a pointed tool (the drift) that is driven into the metal over the hardy hole of an anvil. The heated hole is further shaped around the horn of an anvil.
Medium: Metal
Material: Mild steel
Process: Blacksmithing, Forging
Subprocess: Cutting
Tools: Cross peen hammer, Slotter punch, Anvil
Artist: Heather McLarty
Location: Adam's Forge. Los Angeles, California.
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