Can You Handle It? Tools for the Home

Can You Handle It? Tools for the Home

Adult | This class is completed

291 Whiconier Road Brookfield, CT 06804 United States

The Good Forge

Seasoned Beginner

Saturday, May 11, 2024-Sunday, May 12, 2024

10:00 AM-4:00 PM on Sun Sat

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$398.00

Can you handle it? In this weekend workshop students will be guided through techniques to make mild steel handled tools for the home such as spatulas, spoons, trowels, fire pokers, and more. Students will then use these techniques to design and create a piece of their choosing. We will go over forging, mass isolation, spreading material, bending, forming, riveting, and more. Focus will be put on designing and planning to create a functional and beautiful tool. This class is great for people with some prior forging experience who want to build their technical and design skills, as well as those newer to blacksmithing. Students should come to class with a few ideas of handled tools for the home and expect to narrow down to a final design together. We will be working only with mild steel and sheet metal, no tool steel or wood.

  • There is a $4 registration fee included in tuition.
    Members will have the $4 fee deducted from the tuition
    There is a $35.00 materials fee included in tuition.

    ** Class size is limited to 5 students aged 17 to adult.
    **Please note that classes at Brookfield Craft Center must meet a minimum number of registrations for the class to run. Students will be notified within a week's notice whether their class will be held. If the class is canceled due to low enrollment, students may request to be transferred to another class or be refunded in full.

Koplik, Anna

Anna Koplik received her BFA in Jewelry from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY where she discovered her love for metalwork and forging. After graduating she shifted her focus to blacksmithing and began traveling, working at crafts schools and as a journeyman architectural smith, teaching blacksmithing workshops, and going on adventures whenever possible. Her personal work focuses mainly on tool and utensil making, and combining functionality with a refined, delicate aesthetic. Anna has worked at a variety of shops, including Atlas Forge, Caleb Kullman Studio, and Spirit Ironworks, as well at taught at various craft schools such as Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and John C. Campbell Folk School.