I think, perhaps, some of them finally understand…
My poor class mates, have had to hear me drone on and on about blacksmithing on too many occasions. But only one of them had ever smacked at hot metal before, so I don’t think any of the others could appreciate my enthusiasm. That is until yesterday and today. We’ve just had two days of Intro to Architectural Metals and a basic blacksmithing course.
As someone with a bit of experience (not to mention having extra equipment to loan the school), I had the privilege of assisting our instructor, Lloyd Johnston, for the two day blacksmithing course.
Overall, I’m very happy. The course was very time-constrained, and so the other students only got a taste of coal smoke – but we’ll be having more later in the year. A number of them seem really pumped, and have asked if they can do some extra-cirricular smithing with me in the meantime.
The instructor, Lloyd, was fantastic, and I learned a lot from him in a short time span. I hope he’ll be the one the school brings back in the spring for our next session. Two days was far too short.
