Cascadia Center For Arts & Crafts
Connecting Community with Art
In this 1 day, hands on course. Safety, body mechanics, tools, and the working properties of hot steel will be addressed, as well as various techniques, such as: tapering, scrolling, twisting, bending, drilling, punching, hot cutting, flat peening, upsetting and shouldering.
You will learn how to make the punches and chisels needed to sculp a dragon’s head on the end of a bar of steel; learn how to pre-form the head by hammer and anvil, chisel out the beard, ears, mouth and teeth; punch the eyes and nostrils; and form additional details that will bring it -and new possibilities in your work- to life.
Kick off Blacksmith Week with a 2 day class with Bend artist Joe Elliot. Classes will be from 9-2 Wednesday August 14th and Thursday August 15th Class fee: $350 or bundle with Blacksmith Week registration fee for $400 Mokume class Day 1: make a billet using copper and brass Day 2: cut the billet to […]
Please join us in beautiful Government Camp, Oregon for CCAC Blacksmith Week 2024!
This class will cover tools and techniques used to forge/sculpt 2 and 3 dimensional animal head finials, ideal for terminating a wide variety of products.
Class will cover techniques and tools used to create 2 dimensional full body animals finials, grate for use on wall mount projects and grills.
Class will cover the design and making of several types and styles on blacksmithing tongs.
This is a 2 day class held at Summit Blacksmthing Studio, Mt Hood Oregon.
6 hr. Saturday (start time 9 am) and 4 hr. Sunday - 10 hr. total
In this 1 day, hands on course. Safety, body mechanics, tools, and the working properties of hot steel will be addressed, as well as various techniques, such as: tapering, scrolling, twisting, bending, drilling, punching, hot cutting, flat peening, upsetting and shouldering.
In this class we will be exploring the rudimentary hammer techniques used, step by step, to forge a knife blade to shape from scrap steels with very little use of a grinder. This class is centered around the clever techniques of ancient smiths melded with the minimal help of modern tools. Research the “Neo-Tribal Bladesmithing” movement and “Tai Goo” for more info on this philosophy and methodology.
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The main project will be a coat hanger. Sounds simple, but it does capture many of the basic skills of blacksmithing. Material management, drawing out, isolating material, making an aesthetic curl, punching a hole, symmetry, etc.
