Hardy tool

[2] The term "hardy", used alone, refers to a cutting chisel used in the square hole of the anvil.

Typical hardy tools include chisels and bending drifts.

The swage is used to make metal a specific cross section, usually round for final use as nails, bolts, rods or rivets.

The fuller is used to stretch or help bend metal, and make dents and shoulders.

Many hardy shapes have corresponding hammer like tools with head shapes to help form metal, called top tools, for example a V-shaped swage is used with an inverted V-shaped hammer like top tool to form iron into an angle shape.