Advanced Blacksmithing

Advanced Blacksmithing

Summer Youth | Available

291 Whiconier Road Brookfield, CT 06804 United States

The Good Forge

Youth Ages 11-17

Monday, August 5, 2024-Friday, August 9, 2024

9:00 AM-12:00 PM on Mon Tue Wed Th Fri

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$254.00

$250.00

Extend your blacksmithing abilities beyond Blacksmithing Basics. Our well trained professional artists will cover techniques that will include scroll making, collaring, basic tool-making, and heat treating. This course will provide the student with the necessary skills to take their blacksmithing interests to the next level and enable them to take more advanced specialized courses in the future. PREREQUISITE: BLACKSMITH BASICS

  • *There is a $4 registration fee included in tuition.

    *Members will have the $4 fee deducted from tuition.
    *Class size is limited to 4 students.

     *SAFETY FIRST*

    Safety Guidelines will be discussed and reviewed 

    Required: Closed toe shoes, Fitted sleeves, Long hair tied back

Simon Rhodes has been forging blades for 8 years, since taking a blacksmithing class at the Brookfield Craft Center at age 11. Since then he has apprenticed under ABS Journeyman smith and forged-in-fire champion, Matt Parkinson, and been published in both Blade and Knives magazines.