Using these skills, students can expect to complete several simple projects. Resource materials will be provided and every trade secret revealed. Students will be housed at the Lodge at Chalk Hill, five miles from the Touchstone campus. Breakfast and dinner will be served at the Lodge. Lunch will be brought into the Hart Moore Blacksmith Studio.
Students are responsible for their own transportation.
This class is everyone s answer to the perfect Christmas gift for themselves. Students will learn, understand, and apply the basic forging techniques of drawing out, upsetting, and forge welding in the most efficient manner. Designing work, selecting materials and sequencing the work are also emphasized. The main focus is on process, but individual projects in keeping with student s experience, are encouraged, so that students can learn to apply the processes to their work. Project decisions can be made during the class.