Sunday, January 26, 2014

beginning blacksmithing



Learning to blacksmith with my 11 year-old at the Broken Hammer Forge was a fantastic experience.  (We built a forge in our back yard, but that will be another post...) Dave is a great teacher.  He agreed to let my son in the class if I worked along side him.  Forging is hard,hot, and dirty work, and by the end of an 8 hour class-day, I was handling the bulk of the load.

We came home with a small box of things we made in the class: a hook, some nails, and most important our own pair of tongs.  

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