Classes and Workshops
Introduction to Blacksmithing 2 days $300
Intermediate Blacksmithing 2 days $300
Introduction to Knifemaking 3 days $400
Intermediate Knifemaking 3 days $400
Steel Roses 2 days $300
Tongs 2 days $300
Introduction to Blacksmithing
The beginning class introduces basic skills of shaping, hardening and tempering steel to make tools, BBQ implements, and simple household items that are both useful and decorative.
Advanced classes can be designed to suit the student’s needs: traditional joinery techniques, jigs, tong making, hammer making, forge welding, design skills, project planning, coal or gas forge construction, etc.
These are intensive hands-on classes with a maximum of three students, providing plenty of one-on-one instruction. You will learn by heating, hammering, and shaping steel; making items of both beauty and utility. Please visit our online gallery to see some of the kinds of things you can learn to make. Call Steve at 509-456-8321 or 509-998-2465 to arrange a class tailored to your skill level and needs.
Introductory Knifemaking
In this 3-day class, you will make a finished knife: forge, grind, harden and temper a blade, and make/attach a brass bolster and hidden-tang or full-tang handle. See Gallery/Blade Gallery. Please call for more information.
Steel Roses
This is a more advanced class, for students who have already achieved some proficiency with a hammer. You will make a Prairie Rose like the one in Gallery/Prairie Rose The skills you learn in making this rose will be directly applicable to forging a wide range of different flowers and other botanical forms in steel. Please call for more information.
