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The largest and most technologically advanced workshop in the southern hemisphere, Eveleigh was opened in 1887 by the NSW government for the maintenance and manufacture of steam locomotives.
The steel scale has piled up around the anvils and hammers and drifts are scattered down the central aisle. Our forearms ache from swinging sledgehammers and the pong of a hard day’s work hangs in the air. It’s the end of the 3rd day of Alec’s Steele’s masterclass – the Blacksmith’s Toolbox,
Our communities don’t depend on smith’s like they used to. Mechanisation and mass production have made the town blacksmith redundant but, surprisingly, the craft still draws a curious crowd. Blacksmithing today has morphed into something else – a challenging and consuming past-time. People around the world are attracted to the blend of athleticism (striking), metallurgy (heat treating to change strength or hardness), technique and resourcefulness (making a tool, to make a something else).
Vocational training institutions have stopped running blacksmithing programs and employers of apprentice smith’s are evaporating, but enthusiasts eager to learn the craft are looking to the internet as their training ground. And this is where Alec Steele comes in – a young lad from a sleepy town in the UK, whose earnest enthusiasm for back to basics blacksmithing made our Aussie cynicism look pretty drab and boring – we needed to pep up if we’re to keep up with this whippersnapper!
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Guys and gals have come far and wide to learn these somewhat peculiar human powered tool-making techniques and will dedicate 4 days to learning these skills. For a blacksmith the challenge is not only to manipulate steel, but to be able to create the tool for the job; to make your own tools means you can be mh3 uch more proactive in what you produce.
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Guys and gals have come far and wide to learn these somewhat peculiar human powered tool-making techniques and will dedicate 4 days to learning these skills. For a blacksmith the challenge is not only to manipulate steel, but to be able to create the tool for the job; to make your own tools means you can be much more proactive in what you produce.
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Guys and gals have come far and wide to learn these somewhat peculiar human powered tool-making techniques and will dedicate 4 days to learning these skills. For a blacksmith the challenge is not only to manipulate steel, but to be able to create the tool for the job; to make your own tools means you can be much more proactive in what you produce.
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Guys and gals have come far and wide to learn these somewhat peculiar human powered tool-making techniques and will dedicate 4 days to learning these skills. For a blacksmith the challenge is not only to manipulate steel, but to be able to create the tool for the job; to make your own tools means you can be much more proactive in what you produce.
Quote I had a lot of fun here! Coming here after work was surprisingly therapeutic and I made three pieces to take home.
Proliferating the methods of blacksmithing has been essential in the revival of this endangered trade; many of the methods Alec has transferred to us have been passed to him by Bryan Brazeal. By the end of 4 days, these 24 blacksmiths have made their own hammers and tongs, flatters, drifts, punches and cupping tools and learned a repertoire of spirited techniques that we’ll be able to pass on.
Hand forging techniques: tapering, bending, twisting, riveting, fullering and finishing
How to use an anvil
How to safely heat steel using a gas furnace
How to work safely in a group environment
Proliferating the methods of blacksmithing has been essential in the revival of this endangered trade; many of the methods Alec has transferred to us have been passed to him by Bryan Brazeal.
Hand forging techniques: tapering, bending, twisting, riveting, fullering and finishing
How to use an anvil
How to safely heat steel using a gas furnace
How to work safely in a group environment
Our communities don’t depend on smith’s like they used to. Mechanisation and mass production have made the town blacksmith redundant but, surprisingly, the craft still draws a curious crowd. Blacksmithing today has morphed into something else – a challenging and consuming past-time. People around the world are attracted to the blend of athleticism (striking), metallurgy (heat treating to change strength or hardness), technique and resourcefulness (making a tool, to make a something else).
Vocational training institutions have stopped running blacksmithing programs and employers of apprentice smith’s are evaporating, but enthusiasts eager to learn the craft are looking to the internet as their training ground. And this is where Alec Steele comes in – a young lad from a sleepy town in the UK, whose earnest enthusiasm for back to basics blacksmithing made our Aussie cynicism look pretty drab and boring – we needed to pep up if we’re to keep up with this whippersnapper!