Our Classes

S-Hook

Learn the basics of blacksmithing with a fun and simple project. Learn essential skills like hammer control, tapering, bending, and twisting as well as essential safety skills like how to avoid burning yourself and others.

You will get to leave with your very own hand made S-Hook.

Blacksmith Leaf

Learn the basics of blacksmithing with a fun and simple project. Learn essential skills like hammer control, tapering, bending, and drawing out, as well as essential safety skills like how to avoid burning yourself and others.

Each student will get to leave with their own leaf or 2.

J-Hook

Learn the basics of blacksmithing with a fun and simple project. Learn essential skills like hammer control, tapering, bending, and drawing out, as well as essential safety skills like how to avoid burning yourself and others.

Class will have a demonstration of how to make both the screw version and the spike version and each student will have time to make 1 or 2 hooks.

Pendants

Learn the basics of blacksmithing with a fun and simple project. Learn essential skills like hammer control, tapering, bending, and drawing out, as well as essential safety skills like how to avoid burning yourself and others. A demonstration on the different pendants will be followed by supervised practice and forging.

Each student will get to leave with their own pendant or 2.

Hair Pin

Learn the basics of blacksmithing with a fun and simple project. Learn essential skills like hammer control, tapering, bending, and drawing out, as well as essential safety skills like how to avoid burning yourself and others.

Class starts with safety then a demo of how it’s made along with supervised opportunities to make a hair pin.

Each student will get to leave with their own hair pin.

Punch and Drift

Expand your knowledge with the technique of punching and drifting a piece to make a hole. Examples and a demonstration of the process of punching and drifting will be followed by hands on supervised practice of the technique. Students will also learn applications, like making a hammer head, bottle opener, or rings.

Each student will leave with whatever piece they worked on.

Forge Welded Firepoker

Learn the important skill of forge welding, a staple in blacksmithing. Using high heat and technique, fuse 2 pieces of steel together. Demonstrations and explanation of uses will be followed by supervised hands on instruction of making a fire poker using forge welding.

Each student will get to leave with their own fire poker.

Railroad Spike Knife

Come forge your very own railroad spike knife.

This class covers drawing out thicker steel, shaping a blade, the proper way to put a tip on a knife, and hammering in bevels so you don't need as long on the grinder. As most railroad spikes don't have enough carbon in them to fully harden, we will not be doing that in class, however all these skills will greatly help you in the upcoming blacksmith knife class.

Forge Tools

Learn how to make and harden your own tools. Endlessly customizable and variable, every smith has a use for making their own chisels, punches, and more. Students will learn the shaping and honing of their tools, general maintenance, how to harden them to make them useful, and how to temper them so they don’t crack and break.

Each student will be given tool steel needed for 2 different tools and will leave with their tools.

Railroad Spike Hatchet

Learn how to turn a railroad spike into a small hatchet, from drifting the eye to drawing out the edge. Class will end with the heat treating process and instructions on tempering.

Students will take their hatchet home with them. Handles will be included.

Letter Opener

Increase your hammer control and skills by forging your own letter opener. A great class to build upon your basic skills and work towards forging your very own knife. Simple and forgiving steel, good hammer control, and some creativity come together into this intermediate class. Demonstrations of techniques will be followed by supervised hands on instruction and practice.

Each student will leave with their own letter opener.

Blacksmith Knife

Learn how to forge your own blacksmith knife, from shaping the blade, forging the handle, and hardening it into a useful knife. Students will get a demonstration as well as supervised practice to make their own knife. The end of the class, we will harden their knife and leave with instructions on how to temper it to increase durability.

Students will leave with their knife at the end of class made from 1084 High Carbon steel.

Layer Damascus

Learn to make your own billet of High Carbon damascus and how to bring out the pattern. From starting with a ready to use billet and ending with a bar of damascus with 12, 24, or even more layers.

Students will leave with a billet of 1084 High Carbon steel and 15n20 High Nickel steel to produce a strong, high contrast bar ready for forging into a blade as well as instructions how to really bring out the pattern of their piece.

Wrapped Hatchet

Learn how to take a bar of steel and forge a old world axe. Learn to shape the steel, forge weld a hard edge into the cutting edge, while keeping the body of the axe soft to reduce chance of damage to the body.

Students will work with our blacksmith to forge their own unique axe. The class will end with hardening the steel with directions of tempering to increase durability.

The body is made of mild steel and the edge of 1084 High Carbon, used for its excellent hardness and cutting potential. Handle will be included.

Cable Damascus

Learn how to turn simple crane cable into a usable piece of steel for knives, axes, or other medium to high carbon needs.

Each student will get a piece of cable, be walked through the process, then be helped in making a piece from their damascus. Students will also get to do a quick etch in their piece to begin to show the very unique pattern.

Canister Damascus

Unique only begins to describe canister damascus. Being able to take nearly any piece of steel and make a solid billet out of it opens up endless possibilities for patterns, colors, and textures.

Students will be able to choose and build their own canister recipe and be supplied with the needed High Carbon powdered steel and will leave with their own unique billet.