Intro to Blacksmithing

#### Are you enthralled by watching glowing red-hot steel being manipulated and transformed? Have you ever wanted to try your hand at blacksmithing? Here’s a chance to learn the safety precautions, basic techniques, tools, and nomenclature to get you started.

#### What you’ll learn:

• Safety in the blacksmith shop.
• Basic Blacksmithing tool use, techniques, and nomenclature.
• How to avoid the most common blacksmith shop injuries.
• Discuss metal selection and using recycled scrap steels in the forge.
• Learn the fundamental forging processes of hammering or drawing a taper, forging from square to octagon to round and back again, scrolling, twisting, bending, and straightening.
• Learn simple finishing techniques to preserve and highlight your work.
• With no prior blacksmithing experience, you should be able to complete a minimum of two different projects to take home from this class.

#### Purchase tickets here: https://makesantafe.org/events/intro-to-blacksmithing/