BLACKSMITH
CLASSES

LEVEL: APPRENTICE
STUDENTS REQUIRED: 2-4

Ready to get your hands dirty? Our one-day Blacksmith Experience is the perfect introduction to the tools and techniques fundamental to making hand-forged ironwork the traditional way.

From preparing the forge to starting the fire, we'll have you shaping hot metal in no time.

And by the end of the day, you'll leave with two completed pieces (e.g. fireplace tools, bottle opener, small candle holder) to take home and show off to your friends and family.

LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE
STUDENTS REQUIRED: 2-4

Whether it’s bushcraft, camping, or splitting logs out back, it’s better with your own axe. Just is.

So join us on one of our most popular one-day classes to design & make your very own.

As an intermediate-level class, we ask that all students have a good level of general fitness and, ideally, experience of using hand tools or previous blacksmithing experience.

LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE
STUDENTS REQUIRED: 2-4

Join Richard on this traditional forging day where he'll guide you through making your very own Yakut or puukko style bushcraft knife.

Using our coal-fired forge, you'll learn to grind, harden and temper knives on this intensive, one-day introduction to the world of bladesmithing.

LEVEL: ADVANCED
STUDENTS REQUIRED: 4

Fancy making your very own bushcraft survival kit using traditional forging techniques? We have just the thing for you...

An intensive, 3-day course, combining the best of our axe and knife making classes with a bushcraft tools day to produce your very own bushcraft survival toolkit.

You'll be working closely with Richard to make a small hand axe, a bushcraft knife, a fire spoon, a traditional firesteel and an awl. We'll also throw in some leather cord and fatwood to send forth all our frontiersmen ready for anything!

This one’s pretty full-on, so there’s a cap of four students per class.

£520 per person

LEVEL: APPRENTICE/INTERMEDIATE
STUDENTS REQUIRED: 4

Discover the ancient art of blacksmithing your way.

• Learn what you want

• Make what you want*

• Do it at your own pace

So round-up your mates, gather the family. Let's have some fun!

* within the realms of possibility

LEVEL: ADVANCED
STUDENTS REQUIRED: 2

If you’re really looking to break into the world of blacksmithing, Intensive Skills Week is where you sharpen your technique.

Tailored specifically to your level of experience and area of interest, we focus on core skills including fire management, tool making and basic heat treatment of carbon steels, fire welding, power hammer work and decorative forgework.

This one’s pretty full-on, so there’s a cap of two students per class.