My amazing wife got me some Blacksmithing classes for my birthday this year. Today is the first day and I'm excited like a little kid getting their first BB gun. 
Pics to come throughout the day!
Pics to come throughout the day!
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Well, didn't get as many pics as I would like due to safety issues, but here's the ones I did get. Lots of basics covered today from how to make a nail to scroll work to splitting a horse shoe in two and making a coat hook. Very solid class and I would HIGHLY recommend Chuck to anyone interested in learning this classic skill. My advice: take the class during a cool month and NEVER underestimate how heavy a 3 pound hammer can be after 4 hours of swinging it!
Here's the pics, all pretty self explanatory. I will say that in the first few of his shop, he has built 90% of the tools you see. Also, that's Chuck in the pics, not me.
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That's awesome. I love to watch people make stuff out of raw materials.Comment
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Pretty cool. I have always wanted to take a few blacksmith classes. Thanks for sharing.Comment
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That is pretty cool man and a lot of fun to turn nothing into somethingComment
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Next class is turning a railroad spike into a knife. Not sure when that will be as he is booked for a while with summer camps.
And yes, turning something out of nothing is amazing. I was absolutely awestruck by how Chuck just sees things in metal. It seems like he has made almost everything he uses and out of the craziest materials that most people just look at as normal items.
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