This intensive 4 day master class is a rare chance for beginning and seasoned blacksmiths to add to their knowledge and tool collection. Students will be guided through the process of making a wide variety of blacksmithing tools to add to your workshop and gain valuable insights into how to forge and modify tools to suit any projects you wish to work on. Many of the tools made in this course are hard to buy nowadays and even second hand ones are expensive if you can find them. 

Students make

• Rounding hammer
• Top and bottom fullers
• Hammer eye tongs
• Cupping tool
• Hardy hot cut
• A variety of punches and drifts

Students will learn

• Forging many tools to take home
• Emphasis on the traditional fashion of forging with a striker
• Finishing and polishing of some tools with a linisher
• Heat treatment
• Handle fitment

What’s included

All materials will be provided for the completion of the tools including handles. 

All safety gear including leather blacksmith aprons, eye, ear and hand protection (but feel free to bring your own if you prefer)

Appropriate for

This class is designed for enthusiastic amateur blacksmiths as well as professionals looking to expand their knowledge.

What to bring

Lunch and snacks

What to wear

Clothing appropriate for a workshop – long pants and sleeves (preferably natural fibre), solid shoes/boots.