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Blacksmith Courses Essex

Maldon, Essex
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Rated Based On 9 Reviews

  • Blacksmith tasters & day courses in Essex
  • Learn basic blacksmith skills from an expert
  • Make forged metal item(s) to take home
  • Max class size two - lots of hands-on time

What's Included

  • Introduction to general blacksmithing skills
  • Manage the fire, draw down a point and make basic scrolls
  • Select appropriate materials
  • Work with traditional blacksmithing tools
  • You will form part of a small group of two participants

Three Hour Blacksmithing Taster

  • Make your own bottle opener and drinks holder to take home with you

One Day Blacksmithing Course

  • Make your own BBQ tool to take home with you

What Can I Expect

Get forging on a blacksmith experience in Essex! You'll find this smithy on a farm estate in Maldon. This is where the metal-bending magic takes place under the watchful eye of expert smith, Tom. Working with steel and wrought iron for many years, he's a great teacher for budding blacksmiths.

We are offering three-hour tasters and full day blacksmithing courses in Essex. Numbers are limited to just two, so you get maximum hands-on time, access to the traditional tools of the trade and lots of individual attention from your host. The aim is for you to learn some basic blacksmithing skills and make a couple of items that you'll be able to take home with you.

As you'll soon discover, there's always a lot going on in a working smithy like this one in Essex. As well as preparing the raw materials (the metal) and the tools, you'll need your heat source. One of the duties you'll be tackling is tending the fire to make sure it's kept stoked and ready to heat the metal to red hot.

And when your length of metal is bright red and glowing, it's time to try out one of the most important blacksmith processes - drawing. This is basically making your hot metal piece longer and thinner by working and pinching it while it's hot. You hit the hot part of the metal with your hammer and the malleable metal stretches and flattens.

A few hours of shaping, bending, pinching and upsetting (the opposite to drawing) the metal and hopefully you'll have fashioned your very own forged metal piece.

Learning from a highly experienced blacksmith on these taster and full-day experiences in Essex means you will appreciate just how intricate blacksmithing work is. It's a real skill to not underwork or underheat the metal, as much as it is to not overwork or overheat it either. So, hammer, anvils and tongs at the ready, it's time to work that metal into shape!

When Is It Available

  • Courses are generally available on weekdays throughout the year, with occasional weekend dates

Taster Session

  • Sessions are generally available starting at 09:00 or 14:00

One Day Course

  • Sessions generally start at 09:00 finishing between 16:00 and 16:30

Location

  • Maldon, Essex
  • Conveniently located 25 minutes from Chelmsford

Suitable For

  • Minimum age 18
  • Due to the nature of this activity a good, general level of fitness is required

Spectators

  • This experience is not suitable for spectators
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Reviews

5 out of 5 stars

Average Rating: 5
Total Reviews: 9

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Reviews

  based on 9 reviews

Rating: 5 stars
Gordon
4 Months ago
What a fantastic way to spend a few hours. I loved it and hope to book again soon. Greg was brillia...
Rating: 5 stars
Christopher Lee
I loved my hot and sweaty experience. The size of the group (3) was just right for all of us to gai...
Rating: 5 stars
Tony
Awesome day, tutor was excellent would recommend this to anyone looking for a great present
Rating: 5 stars
Matt
Greg was really helpful and patient. Fun couple event with real things to take home.
Rating: 5 stars
Colin Johnstone
Amazing experience, procedures clearly explained, good mentor.
Rating: 5 stars
Peter
Brilliant session with Adam who was both knowledgeable and patient!
Rating: 5 stars
Rebecca
A truly excellent day, particularly in the cooler autumn weather!
Rating: 5 stars
Andrew
Fun day spent learning new skills in a friendly, fun environment. You get to keep and take home wha...
Rating: 5 stars
Peter
It was a great experience, the workers were friendly and helpful and i learned a lot in just a day....