A chance to make good solid tent stakes.
This is sort of a focused Open Smithy* time. The main intent will be to make, you guessed it, tent stakes.
Techniques: drawing-out, cutting,and bending. Minor coaching on form and technique will be available. We have four coal forges, so that many people (or groups) can be working at once. Some protective gear is available. If you're bringing a group you may need to bring some of your own eye and ear protection. We have aprons, ear muffs, and safety glasses enough to protect eight people. Bring your own stock or buy some from us, we have 1/2" square, 3/8" square & round on the rack.
*If you really want to make something else while everyone else is
making tent stakes, feel free, you can do as you please with your forge
time.
Gift Certificates for Tent Stakes and Open Smithy are available.
Instructor: Carl West
$25/hour
Maximum of four groups; no more than four people per group.
Please wear proper clothing for visiting or working in the forge: closed toe shoes (preferably leather, preferably high-topped. Sneakers are sufficient.), natural fiber clothing, long pants that cover the tops of the shoes. Click here for more safety information.
This class is either: If you're interested in taking Tent Stakes and Open Smithy and it's not on the calendar, please tell us using our Notification-List Page.
Dates and Times:
If none of the dates below work for you (or are already full), we suggest you
Add yourself to the Notification List for this class.
(The notification list gets emailed soon after classes are put on the schedule.)
- not upcoming on our schedule,
- or we've fallen behind in our clerical duties and not entered it in the database.
If you found it on our calendar page, we are planning to offer it on that date.