Fire in the Swamp 2012

hand made tool box and black smith tools given away 2011
Hand Forged knives by Edd Scafidel
ladle for iron pour pre-heat
Master Smith Chris Marks at Gas Forge
John Perilloux charging the cupola
Raku kiln and pottery being pre-heated
Sue Lincoln making a pewter mold for casting
Teaching of Blacksmithing by Chuck Averett
Pouring an Iron Cross in a mold carved in the ground.
breaking of iron for the iron melt
Wood fire to pre-heat the cupola and light the coke
Kelly Landrum making Raku
Hand Forged Iron Work by Tom Walker
Working at the anvil during Fire in the Swamp 2009
Iron starts to flow
Freshly cast bronze horse-head cane handle
At the Anvil, Fire in the Swamp 2009
John Perilloux
Hot cutting iron by Wayne Cash
Iron flows freely from the cupola
Pouring bronze into sand molds
molten iron flowing from the cupola
Bad ass knife
Copper leaf making with Patrick Branan
Mykaela forging
Chris Marks forges a knife
Chuck and his son
Forging a Knife Blade
scraping the doss off the bronze
oxygen lance clears a blockage with John Periloux
Kelly Landrum preparing her kiln for Raku
Fire in Swamp 2009 Gets Underway
Deborah Davis forging a hummingbird
Raku pottery by Kelly Landrum
Hunter Averett at the forge
The first iron pour from the new cupola
Bronze crucible being transferred to pouring shank
Bronze pour
Throwing pottery
Youngsmith Chucks son
Deborah at the forge
Forging
Kelly and her class
John Perilloux feeds the cupola