Fire in the Swamp Galleries

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