Blacksmithing Courses

The Blacksmithing Course

This is a course on blacksmithing. I take you through a lot of the basic concepts of smithing. I show you the tools and techniques of blacksmithing and a variety of other things. Below is a breakdown of the lessons. You can hop to individual lessons or your can start with the first one and at the end of each lesson there is a link to the next lesson so you can simply move forward through the courses. This tutorial isn't complete and it is a work in progress. I generally add a new lesson on a weekly basis so you might want to bookmark and check back regularly.

If you are serious about the craft I recommend you get a book or two on the subject. I have several books and they have proven invaluable to me. Of course, one of the best ways to learn is to find a teacher and for many years this was a difficult thing to do. But in the past several years blacksmithing has experienced a revival and there are more and more smiths available and places where you can take courses and learn right at the forge!

The Lessons:

A look at the basics, the forge and the anvil

The Anvil
The Forge
How to make a forge - This is an additional and optional part of this series where I show you how to make a forge just like the one I use in these tutorials.

Basic techniques of manipulating metal - bending, twisting and straightening

Drawing out metal

The Hardie tools - in this lesson I explain the Hardie tools and use a bending fork to bend metal.

The Eight Basic Hammer Blows with anvil and hammer. This is an important skill that every blacksmith works on.

Our first project: Blacksmithing a Simple Knife

How to make a Dinner Bell Triangle - This is a real easy project and a good way to do some simple blacksmithing

Blacksmithing

Blacksmithing Course: Lessons

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