Blacksmithing Day

Spend a day in a fully equipped forge learning basic blacksmithing techniques. After an introduction you will quickly move onto basic metallurgy; iron, steel and non-ferrous, work the metal at different temperatures and will learn how to judge the heat of the metal by its colour. Work on an anvil and swage block, learn pointing, curling and forge welding.

You will spend the morning practicing these techniques and in the afternoon put these processes together to create your own forged metal work to take home.

There are only four places on each cours working with blacksmith Alex Pole. Please note this is a very physical course and participants should be reasonably fit.