Heating my first S hook!

All of the projects from the weekend: Fire poker; S hooks, organically-shaped wall hook; and leaf-shaped handles (not yet bent).

Of my List of 50, this experience was a real highlight!  I learned about blacksmithing and spent a totally hands-on weekend at the Wareham Forge with expert blacksmith artist Darrell Markewitz. He runs weekend introductory & intermediate workshops with just 4 students at a time working at two forges. Darrell’s teaching technique is adaptive and empowering for everyone, no matter one’s physical strength or ability to to pick up skills.  He paces each project out step-by-step between a demo and back to the forge to do our own. By Sunday afternoon, we were able to pursue a last project independently. I am so lucky to be living only a half hour north of Wareham Forge because that was not my last trip there!

Projects from the workshop weekend.

The coal forge we learned to stoke and used all weekend.