Blacksmith Courses Essex

Blacksmith Courses Essex

Get forging on a blacksmith experience in Essex! Just outside Chelmsford you'll find this smithy on a farm estate. This is where the metal-bending magic takes place under the watchful eye of expert smith Tom. Working with steel and wrought iron for many years he's a great teacher for budding blacksmiths. We are offering three-hour tasters and full day blacksmithing courses in Essex. Numbers are limited to just two so you get maximum hands-on time access to the traditional tools of the trade and lots of individual attention from your host. The aim is for you to learn some basic blacksmithing skills and make a couple of items that you'll be able to take home with you. As you'll soon discover there's always a lot going on in a working smithy like this one in Essex. As well as preparing the raw materials (the metal) and the tools you'll need your heat source. One of the duties you'll be tackling is tending the fire to make sure it's kept stoked and ready to heat the metal to red hot. And when your length of metal is bright red and glowing it's time to try out one of the most important blacksmith processes - drawing. This is basically making your hot metal piece longer and thinner by working and pinching it while it's hot. You hit the hot part of the metal with your hammer and the malleable metal stretches and flattens. A few hours of shaping bending pinching and upsetting (the opposite to drawing) the metal and hopefully you'll have fashioned your very own forged metal piece. It's pretty physical stuff being a blacksmith so the full day Essex course includes a break for a spot of lunch so you can refuel before getting back to the hot metal. Learning from a highly experienced blacksmith on these taster and full-day experiences in Essex means you will appreciate just how intricate blacksmithing work is. It's a real skill to not underwork or underheat the metal as much as it is to not overwork or overheat it either. So hammer anvils and tongs at the ready it's time to work that metal into shape!
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