Fiddle Around Forge
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
I'd like to introduce myself and my craft.
I have been working as a Blacksmith since 1996 and before that I was a master cabinet maker. I needed carving chisels for some classical wood carving commission and found that I needed a number of new chisels at $35 each all my profit would be put into them. I had always been intrigued with a cousin that learned his trade as a blacksmith on a whaling ship out of Glasgow Scotland in the early 1900's. I remember watching him forge a miniature anvil out of a piece of rail. I found a blacksmith in Port Townsend, WA who was giving a 2 day seminar and signed up. I made one chisel in the 2 day class and 2 more for a friend 10 years later. I have been smithing ever since that 2 day seminar.