Metal Working

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I should have been clearer. I’m interested in setting up a small, traditional forge or smithy, not so much a machine shop. Forge welding instead of mig, files instead of grinders, that sort of thing.

Boru

What do you plan on making? Ornamental stuff or knives and tools. Are you interested in Damascus?

Simple stuff to start with (obviously) until I learn what I’m doing. Eventually, I’d like to get into ornamental wrought iron work.

When I was a kid, we had a Gypsy farrier come round periodically to shoe the few horses we kept. He also made wrought iron doodads - picture frames, tool racks, drawer handles, etc. Beautiful stuff.

Boru