Upcoming Events
Axe Making
Forge your own functional axe while learning traditional blacksmithing techniques, teamwork, heat treatment and handle making in this hands-on workshop.
Mask Making
Create a one-of-a-kind sculptural steel mask while learning traditional forging, shaping and texturing techniques to bring your design to life.
Intro to Tool Making
Learn essential blacksmithing techniques while forging your own compass tool, exploring tapers, rivets, and heat treatment through hands-on exercises.
Knife Making | Bushcraft Knife
Forge your own functional bushcraft knife while learning blade shaping, hammer control, heat treatment and handle assembly using traditional blacksmithing techniques.
Tong Making | Box Jaw Tongs
Learn to forge your own functional box jaw tongs, developing traditional blacksmithing skills while shaping two separate pieces to fit and work together.
Hammer Making
October 9-11, 2026
Instructor: Haley Arbour
In this class, students can expect to learn how to punch and drift a hammer's eye by hand and with the aid of strikers. Striking etiquette and form, as well as safety will be high priority, and a major topic of discussion. Types of hammers, balance, and tool usage will be discussed. Heat treating experience is preferred but not required. Students will forge and handle a forging hammer that they can take home and use.
Intro to Bladed Tools | Draw knife
Draw Knife
September 12-13, 2026
Instructor: Lashen Orendorff
In this class, students will forge and finish a draw knife and a carpenter's bench chisel.
Focusing on forging at the anvil and carving the handles by hand, students will leave this class knowing how to harden and temper, and will have a pair of these old-school tools that are ready to be put to work and will last for years to come. Hand forging techniques as well as symmetrical forgings will be the main focus. Shaping the handle for the tools will be done with a spoke shave.
Intro to Bladesmithing | Blacksmith’s knife
Blacksmith’s Knife
August 28-30, 2026
Instructor: Lashen Orendorff
In this three day workshop students will learn to forge the traditional blacksmith’s knife, a 4” blade with an integral forged handle made from carbon steel. We will be working at the anvil, forging the shape, and then move to the bevels of the blade.
After forging, we will walk through the concepts and practice of hardening and tempering to preserve the cutting edge and toughness to the blade. This class is designed as an introduction to forged cutting tools and offers students a project that promotes hammer control and a keen eye for detail, all while creating a functional hand-forged knife.