Fire in the Swamp Galleries

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