A Taste of Blacksmithing
12 11 08
8 S-hooks.
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Rudiments of Blacksmithing II
11 30 08
Forge welded flux spoon, punch & chisel, sharp right angle, carved dragon.
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Nothing but Knives
11 29 08
2 simple "blacksmith" knives (aka "Pixie Stickers").
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Nothing but Knives
11 28 08
4 simple "blacksmith" knives (aka "Pixie Stickers").
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
11 24 08
2 Wall hooks and 2 S-hooks.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
11 19 08
3 S-hooks and a garden stake/pointer.
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Basics of Blacksmithing II
11 17 08
Forge welded chain (one link each meeting), eye-punch, high carbon steel hardened, tempered and broken, square-octagonal-round, welded basket s-hook, 2-piece weld, forging-to-a-drawing, scrolling-in-the-air.
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Rudiments of Blacksmithing II
11 12 08
Forge welded flux spoon, punch & chisel, sharp right angle, carved dragon.
We ended up really picture-short for this class.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
11 08 08
5 S-hooks, 2 wall hooks, and a garden stake.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
11 04 08
3 S-hooks.
(thanks to Jess for the use of her camera)
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
09 25 08
Seven S-hooks and a wall hook.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
09 15 08
Two S-hooks.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
09 12 08
Three S-hooks.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
09 10 08
Two S-hooks.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
09 02 08
Four S-hooks and a wall hook.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
08 24 08
Six S-hooks.
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Rudiments of Blacksmithing I (in two weeks)
08 21 08
We met twice a week and made barbecue forks and blacksmith tongs. And learned a bunch of techniques along the way.
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Shakedown Cruise
08 20 08
These two had been away from the hammer for a few years, so we were finding out where they stood.
A mantle hook, two forge welds, a pendant and the start of a knife.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
08 15 08 6:30pm
One very nice short S-hook.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
08 15 08 2pm
One very nice long S-hook.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
08 11 08
Four S-hooks.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
07 20 08
An S-hook and a J-Hook done quickly and quite well.
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Rudiments of Blacksmithing I
07 09 08
Forks and Tongs
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
07 01 08
Several S-hooks and a pointer
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I've fallen way behind in the posting of class pictures. I'm working on it. - CW 07 03 08
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
05 01 08
An S-hook, a cube-wall hook and a short garden stake
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Our second Basics of Blacksmithing class started on January 14 and finished on April 14
They get their own page.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
04 05 08
Mostly S-hooks and a short garden stake
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
03 30 08
All Garden stakes
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Simple Knives
03 08 08
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Click for a series of pictures
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
03 08 08
A mix of S-hooks and garden stakes
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
03 01 08
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Simple Knives
02 26 08
Just one student on Tuesday mornings.
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(Unfortunately, the pictures of Rebecca and her knives have been lost)
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Striker Team
02 23 08
The first meeting. We worked out some vocabulary and figured out a use for the crossed-arm style blows you can see in the background of the Forge Welding video on YouTube. We made some good progress in drawing out some axle steel to be bick-irons for the smithy
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A Taste of Blacksmithing
02 21 08
We chose to make S-hooks.
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Rudiments I
02 20 08
Forks and Tongs and more tongs and some sweet little rivets made using the monkey tool as sort of an upside-down header.
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Rudiments III
02 05 08
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They have their own page There are too many pictures for here.
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A Taste of Blacksmithing: 'S' Hooks
02 02 08
We got off to a slow start what with finagling aprons and eyegear and such. And we ran over time. In the end we got six 's' hooks and two nearly 'j' hooks. |
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A Taste of Blacksmithing: 'S' Hooks
(neé Cooking Skewers)
1 16 08
The class had seven students but none were attached to the idea of cooking skewers, so we made S-hooks instead.
Lessons were learned, some ends were burned, but only two fingertips touched hot metal that I know of. |
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A Taste of Blacksmithing: 'S' Hooks (was Cooking Skewers)
1 11 08
The class was small and they chose to make S-hooks instead of the skewers.
Nate finished early and got a good start on making a long thin taper. |
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