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A Taste of Blacksmithing

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The discovery of iron and how to work it changed human history. Here’s your chance to explore and shape this basic element. You’ll learn the fundamental smithing techniques: hammering, drawing out, cutting, bending, and twisting. Using these skills and a coal-fired forge, you’ll bring a piece of iron to an incandescent heat, and with anvil, hammer, and tongs, create and S-hook that’s both functional and decorative.  Please wear proper clothing for visiting or working in the forge: closed to shoes (preferably leather, preferably high-topped), natural fiber clothing, long pants that cover the tops of the shoes.

Please read prospecthillforge.com/safety.php before attending.  This class will meet in Waltham at Prospect Hill Forge, on Guinan Street, just off Bacon Street. Directions and other important information is located on the website www. prospecthillforge.com.  One Session



 


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