Trying to recollect what happened last week poses enough problems let alone ten months ago.
With five budding Smiths fully paid up for the next five weeks an age range of 13-50, a boy girl ratio of 4-2, we were set to go. Building from our elementary knowledge of scrolls and tapers, the most basic of techniques, we were set to work with the emphasis on hammer action and controlling the heat.
A valuable lesson for myself on this session was although i never produced a finished item i did however have lots of fun, and in theory learnt to form a reasonable taper, the scrolls i still struggle with 10 months down the line.
Unfortunately a relative had chosen this day to tie the knot, so my first session was cut short by holy matrimony, however it is amazing what thought processes are to be had, when most revellers were trying bad renditions of what some would desribe as dance others an unknown Parksonian illness, yep i was probably on my 7-8th Doom bar, thinking of hot metal, what one day i might be able to make, and how the next day i would surf the net looking for any related Blacksmith information. Incidentlt none of this happened the next day as i continued my affair with the Doom bar barrel.
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