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Guided Open Smithy
A little help on your project.

This is a time to work on your own projects with an experienced smith at hand to help work out ideas, techniques, and approaches.

The experienced smith may be working on something of their own during this session, but their priority is to be there for you. Feel free to interrupt them at any time.

Gift Certificates for Guided Open Smithy are available.

3 hours    dates&times

Instructor: typically Carl or Willow
Fee: $95 per student
Maximum 4 students, one per forge

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.

Some smithing experience expected.
Ability to clean, light, run, and take down a coal forge required.
If you need to be taught these things, there is an additional $10 cash fee.

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.)

Thursday, August 28
6:30pm to 9:30pm
(2025)    - with Carl West

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Thursday, September 25
6:30pm to 9:30pm
(2025)    - with Carl West

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