Comments on: Blog Carnival Q of the Month!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:25:52 +0000

No, sadly, I don’t have room for a forge myself. I used to have one though. Saw it at a barn sale, passed it up, then later drove 7 hours there and back to go get it.

By: Richard Sewell

Richard Sewell — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:24:41 +0000

took a weekend blacksmithing course, a couple of years ago, and enjoyed it hugely. I set up a forge in my shed shortly afterwards, and I’ve made all manner of strange things with it. It’s the kind of thing that you don’t need to be very good at before you can start learning on your own.

I found Peter Parkinson’s book, “The Artist Blacksmith”, highly inspirational. And he was the teacher on my course, which was helpful.
There’s something I find very attractive about the immediacy and plasticity of the process. There’s no time for fiddling about while the metal is hot, so you just do what you do and see what happens.

Here, for your amusement, are a few pictures of the things that have come out of the forge (not all of which are strictly blacksmithing!):
http://jarkman.co.uk/catalog/forge/index.htm

Do you have the space (and distant neighbours) to run a forge yourself ?

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:08:32 +0000

thanks Ebren, I love it!

By: Ebren

Ebren — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:19:25 +0000

And don’t forget, he would have said it with a strange spelling too . . “Bigger flame, Jeweller!”

By: Lorrene Davis

Lorrene Davis — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:41:11 +0000

This is so strange…. you all have welding in your blogs.
Wild.
Lorrene

By: Angela

Angela — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:57:37 +0000

You mean they train Oxen to be blacksmiths too ? Boy, it must really be a great school! ;o))) I can just imagine them standing with an arc in hand and one of those welding masks ;o)))))))
Sorry I’m not in this month – too much stuff already in action, besides, there’s no competing with “oxen blacksmiths”, even if they were French ;o)))))

By: lora

lora — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:19:29 +0000

Great post! I wanna go to Tillers too. For the oxen. I can just picture it. Two oxen in a yoke, you welding them into it (some how without turing then into steaks). Funny.