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Forging A Candelabrum
A Focus on Forge Welding

We'll be doing at least five different forge welds in the construction of this candelabrum:
a "T", a Basket, a lap, a socket or cleft, a stack, and maybe a small-stock brag-weld if we can pull it off.
Not in that order.

Other skills we will use:
Drawing-out
Bending
Hot punching
Drifting
Dishing
Splitting, perhaps
Tapping and threading
Tenoning
- butcher
- top&bottom swage
- monkey tool
Peining, perhaps
Cross-peining to spread and to stretch
And tweaking and fiddling to get things straight.

There's a fair bit of preparation pre- and post- each weld, and some of the parts just take time to make.

Gift Certificates for Forging A Candelabrum are available.

36 hours in 12 three hour meetings    dates&times

Instructor: Carl West
Fee: $1200 per student
Maximum 4 students

Prerequisite:

Required: A rapid Covid test that day.
Yes, really, we're still asking for it in 2025.
It's still out there, and no fun at all.

The student will have already done at least one successful forge weld, be mildly familiar with taps and dies, and be entirely comfortable with serious drawing-out and bending.

Please wear proper clothing for visiting or working in the forge:
- closed top shoes
(Preferably leather, preferably high-topped. Sneakers are sufficient... but sandals, crocs, pumps, mules... are not. If you can see the skin of your foot, or the foot of your socks, it's not good enough.)
- natural fiber clothing
(Synthetics are a risk because: IF a HOT thing touches them it's likely that the material will melt and stick to your flesh, making the burn even worse than it would be through a natural fiber.)
- long pants that cover the tops of the shoes.
(To keep hot coals and bits of steel from getting down into your shoes. Which I hear is a bunch of No Fun.) Click here for more safety information.


Dates and Times:
If none of the dates below work for you (or are already full), we suggest you
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(The notification list gets emailed soon after classes are put on the schedule.)

Ongoing:

Weekly on Sundays, September 7 to December 7
6:30pm to 9:30pm
(No class on October 05, 12)
(2025)

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Upcoming:

Weekly on Sundays, September 7 to December 7
6:30pm to 9:30pm
(No class on October 05, 12)
(2025)

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